Expression
Resilience
Emergency
Response Drills
Script Kiddies
Sextortion
Social
Engineering
State Sponsored
Threats
Threat
June 2019
Definition
content and demanding that a ransom be paid, usually via a
cryptocurrency such as bitcoin, in order for the victim to regain
access to systems and information. Ransomware can also lock
systems in various ways without the use of encryption, disrupting
device performance. Actors may threaten to expose sensitive,
personal, or embarrassing information unless a ransom is paid.
Ransomware is typically installed using a trojan or a worm deployed
via phishing or by visiting a compromised website. Ransomware is a
type of malicious software, or malware, designed to deny access to a
computer system or data until a ransom is paid. Ransomware
typically spreads through phishing emails or by unknowingly visiting
an infected website.
The ability of an information system to continue to operate while
under attack, even if in a degraded or debilitated state, and to rapidly
recover operational capabilities for essential functions after a
successful attack.
Exercises used to rehearse anticipated emergency scenarios. They are
designed to provide training, reduce confusion, and verify the
adequacy of emergency response activities and equipment." they are
coordinated, supervised activities that are normally used to test a
single specific operation or function; their role is to practice or
perfect one small part of the response plan.
A person who uses existing computer scripts or codes to hack into
computers, lacking the expertise to write their own. or in
programming and hacking culture, a script kiddie, skiddie, or skid is
an unskilled individual who uses scripts or programs developed by
others to attack computer systems and networks and deface
websites.
Sextortion is a form of sexual exploitation that employs non-physical
forms of coercion to extort sexual favors from the victim. Sextortion
refers to the broad category of sexual exploitation in which abuse of
power is the means of coercion, as well as to the category of sexual
exploitation in which threatened release of sexual images or
information is the means of coercion.
Social engineering refers to all techniques aimed at talking a target
into revealing specific information or performing a specific action
for illegitimate reasons.
The calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against
civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or
ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion
or instilling fear.
Any circumstance or event with the potential to adversely impact an
asset through unauthorized access, destruction, disclosure,
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