Red flag
A warning sign that something might not be what it claims to be.
Learn it through a story
- The Cyber Squad of Silverline Heights (Cybersecurity for Juniors 1, Ch 10)
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Related terms
- Rate limiting Restricting how many requests a client can make in a given time, to prevent abuse or scraping.
- RBAC / ABAC Role-based and attribute-based access control, two models for deciding who's allowed to do what.
- Recruitment fraud A fake job or internship offer designed to look like a genuine hiring process.
- Red team A team authorised to simulate real attacks to find weaknesses.
- Refresh token A longer-lived, separately managed token used to obtain new short-lived access tokens.
- Responsible disclosure Reporting a security flaw quietly to whoever can fix it, instead of exploiting or publicising it.