In-app purchase
Spending real money inside an app, often disguised as game currency.
Learn it through a story
- The Game That Asked for Too Much (Cybersecurity for Juniors 1, Ch 3)
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Related terms
- IDOR (Insecure Direct Object Reference) A flaw where a system trusts an ID in a request instead of checking who's allowed to see it.
- Image scanning Automatically checking a container image's layers for known vulnerabilities.
- Impossible travel A detection technique flagging logins from two locations too far apart to reach in the time between them.
- Incident response The organised process of containing, investigating, and recovering from a security incident.
- Integrity Ensuring information hasn't been improperly altered or tampered with.
- IoT (Internet of Things) Ordinary objects, plugs, bulbs, cameras, connected to the internet.