Malware
Malicious software, built to harm, spy on, or exploit a device.
Learn it through a story
- The Prize Bunny Never Won (Cybersecurity for Juniors 1, Ch 5)
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Related terms
- KYC Know Your Customer, the paperwork banks use to confirm who you are.
- Lateral movement An attacker moving from one compromised system to another inside a network.
- Least privilege Giving an app, or a person, only the access they truly need, nothing more.
- MFA (multi-factor authentication) Requiring a second proof of identity beyond just a password.
- Model extraction Copying how a model behaves by sending it huge numbers of questions.
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) A second proof of identity beyond just a password.