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  2. Principle of least privilege - Wikipedia

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    In information security, computer science, and other fields, the principle of least privilege (PoLP), also known as the principle of minimal privilege (PoMP) or the principle of least authority (PoLA), requires that in a particular abstraction layer of a computing environment, every module (such as a process, a user, or a program, depending on the subject) must be able to access only the ...

  3. Plausible deniability - Wikipedia

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    These so-called "little green men" have been given as an example of plausible deniability. Plausible deniability is the ability of people, typically senior officials in a formal or informal chain of command , to deny knowledge and/or responsibility for actions committed by or on behalf of members of their organizational hierarchy.

  4. Mandatory access control - Wikipedia

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    January 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message) In computer security , mandatory access control ( MAC ) refers to a type of access control by which a secured environment (e.g., an operating system or a database) constrains the ability of a subject or initiator to access or modify on an object or target . [ 1 ]

  5. Bogon filtering - Wikipedia

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    Announcements of new assignments are often published on network operators' mailing lists (such as NANOG) to ensure that bogon filtering can be removed for addresses that have become legitimate. For example, addresses in 49.0.0.0 / 8 were not allocated prior to August 2010, but are now used by APNIC .

  6. Deniable encryption - Wikipedia

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    One example of deniable encryption is a cryptographic filesystem that employs a concept of abstract "layers", where each layer can be decrypted with a different encryption key. [ citation needed ] Additionally, special " chaff layers" are filled with random data in order to have plausible deniability of the existence of real layers and their ...

  7. Security Identifier - Wikipedia

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    Security Identifier (SID) is a unique, immutable identifier of a user account, user group, or other security principal in the Windows NT family of operating systems. A security principal has a single SID for life (in a given Windows domain), and all properties of the principal, including its name, are associated with the SID.

  8. SYN flood - Wikipedia

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    A normal connection between a user and a server.The three-way handshake is correctly performed. SYN Flood. The attacker (Mallory, green) sends several packets but does not send the "ACK" back to the server.

  9. SQL injection - Wikipedia

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    A classification of SQL injection attacking vector as of 2010. In computing, SQL injection is a code injection technique used to attack data-driven applications, in which malicious SQL statements are inserted into an entry field for execution (e.g. to dump the database contents to the attacker).