#1
The malicious modification of visual content, typically a form of intimidation or "sending a message".
Defacement
Illegal activity that involves a computer, networked device or a network.
Cybercrime
Modify existing services, daemons, or agents to establish persistence on the system.
Modify System Process
When a data storage resource has the data deleted or corrupted to interrupt availability of the data.
Disk Wipe
An echo request packet sent over the maximum size causing issues to freeze or crash.
Ping of Death
Security mechanism prohibiting the execution of those programs on a known malicious or undesired list of software.
Blacklist
Attacks when an adversary does not take the data, but instead make subtle, stealthy tweaks to data to affect a business process organizational understanding, or decision making.
Data Manipulation
The good guy who uses his (or her) capabilities to damage your organization — but only hypothetically. Instead, the real purpose is to uncover security failings in your system in order to help you safeguard your business from the dangerous hackers.
White Hat Hacking
Adversaries may break out of a container to gain access to the underlying computing resources. This can allow an adversary access to other containerized resources from the underlying computer level.
Escape to Host
Refers to the unintended alteration or damage to the software instructions stored in the permanent software programmed into a read-only memory of a computing device, leading to malfunction or failure of the device.
Firmware Corruption
A calling card for ethical hackers to show that a system has been breached or in showing how individuals are susceptible to clicking links when they do not know where they lead.
Rickroll
Listening in on a transaction, communication, data transfer or conversation without consent.
Eavesdropping
Deleting or disabling various backups or services that would aid in the reconstruction or restoration of an affected computer.
Inhibit System Recovery
Using the ability to access, manipulate, or disable computing resources or data to gain social or political power.
Hacktivism
The measure of the damage or harm caused by a cyber attack.
Impact Level
The unauthorized utilization of a system's computing resources, such as processing power, memory, or network bandwidth, by an attacker or malicious program, often resulting in degraded performance or unavailability of resources for legitimate users.
Resource Hacking
A cyber attack is any attempt to harm the functionality of or collect data from a system without proper authorization.
Cyber Attack
A type of cyber attack that exploits a vulnerability in software that no one is aware of yet.
Zero Day Attack
A security incident in which unauthorized parties gain access to sensitive data or confidential information, including personal data.
Data breach
A method of vulnerability testing used by individuals to find exploits and flaws in their systems. This is done by simulating an attack on your system.
Penetration Testing
Flooding a server with internet traffic to prevent users from accessing connected online services and sites.
DDOS
Falsifying information in a domain name system (DNS) or web proxy for the purpose of harming users.
Cache Poisoning
Cyber attack that seeks to damage an organization by targeting less secure elements in the way the organization makes use of computing resources from outside of their control or ownership.
Supply Chain Attack
A random string of bits used in an algorithm to scramble and unscramble data.
Encryption Keys
Document that provides a comprehensive overview of all security requirements and practices employed to keep your computing devices and data safe.
System Security Plan (SSP)
Any action that preserves adversary access to a compromised account, such as modifying credentials or permission groups.
Account Manipulation
A computer hacker who regularly violates laws and ethical standards for malicious or self serving reasons.
Black Hat Hacker
The act of changing the registration of a domain name without the permission of the original owner, or by abuse of privileges on domain hosting and domain registrar systems.
Domain Hijacking
Malware specifically written to take over certain programmable industrial control systems and cause the equipment run by those systems to malfunction.
Stuxnet
A string of malicious code inserted intentionally into a program to harm a network as a revenge mechanism on behalf of the writer of the code.
Logic Bomb