Privilege Escalation

An attack where a user gains elevated access to resources that are normally protected, beyond what their assigned permis...

SOC (Security Operations Center)

A centralized unit staffed by security analysts who monitor an organization's IT infrastructure for cybersecurity threat...

AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)

A symmetric block cipher algorithm adopted by the U.S. government as the standard for encrypting electronic data, replac...

SQL Injection

A code injection technique that exploits vulnerabilities in a web application's database layer by inserting malicious SQ...

Social Engineering

The psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information, exploiting human...

Zero-Day Exploit

An attack that targets a previously unknown vulnerability in software, hardware, or firmware before the vendor has relea...

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)

A prolonged and targeted cyberattack where a sophisticated threat actor (typically a nation-state or organized crime gro...

Buffer Overflow

A vulnerability that occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it can hold, causing adjacent memory...