Glossary Terms

Using normal system tools for actions that may be malicious.

A large language model that generates text and helps with tasks from instructions.

Code that loads and runs another part of a program or attack.

Malicious software that can spy, steal data, damage a device, or take control.

A cryptographer known for work on public keys and Diffie-Hellman key exchange.

Data about communication or a file, not necessarily the content itself. For example time, sender, recipient, or location.

A U.S. standards agency that publishes technical and security standards, among other work.

A U.S. intelligence agency focused mainly on signals intelligence and communications.

An older but still used tool for DNS queries.

Deliberately making code or data harder to understand at first sight.