Scareware
A scam that claims your device is infected, to frighten you into clicking.
Learn it through a story
- The Prize Bunny Never Won (Cybersecurity for Juniors 1, Ch 5)
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Related terms
- SAST Static application security testing, scanning source code itself for risky patterns.
- SBOM Software bill of materials, a complete list of every component a piece of software depends on.
- SCA Software composition analysis, checking third-party dependencies against known vulnerability databases.
- Secret scanning Automated tools that watch public code for exposed credentials.
- Secret sprawl Credentials scattered across many places, repos, notes, chats, with no central record of where they all live.
- Secrets manager / vault A system that stores credentials centrally and issues them securely, often with short lifespans.