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- The Secret That Outlived the Fix (Cybersecurity for Juniors 3, Ch 4)
Related terms
- Foothold A first point of access an attacker uses to reach further into a larger network.
- Foundation The shared core knowledge that makes any later specialisation easier to learn.
- Fraud dispute A formal report to a bank or payment provider asking to reverse an unauthorised or misdirected payment.
- Ground truth Facts that have been carefully checked in the real world.
- Hardcoded secret A password, key, or token written directly into source code instead of kept separately.
- Hashing Turning data into a fixed, one-way fingerprint used to check a match.