Glossary

Here is your glossary of terms to help you navigate understanding cybersecurity.

You can refer to this glossary at any point throughout the course.

D

• A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted network by overwhelming it with a flood of Internet traffic
• Domain name server (DNS) is what automatically translates internet addresses to the numbered address that computers use to direct activity.

H

• Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)
• Hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS)

I

• Internet service provider (ISP)

K

• Keylogger records every keystroke made by a user

O

• Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) refers to the use of publicly accessible information

P

• Payload is the part of the malware that performs the attack

R

• Radio-frequency Identification Device (RFID)
• Rooting is similar to jailbreaking one’s device. It is the act of installing an application from another source

S

• SSID stands for Service Set IDentifier and is your network’s name

U

• Universal storage bus (USB)

V

• Virtual private network (VPN)