Bot/Botnet/Zombie - A computer/s that is infected with malware that allows it to be remotely controlled by an attacker, Shoulder Surfing - Sensitive information displayed on monitor, third-party glances at your screen to obtain sensitive information, Social Engineering - In person or electronic, uses urgency, authority and intimidation (to name a few) in order to obtain sensitive information, Phishing - Social engineering with a touch of spoofing, often delivered by spam, Spear-Phishing - Uses inside information to sound believable in order to obtain sensitive information, DoS - Overloads service causing service to become unavailable, Dumpster Diving - Retrieval of documents that may contain sensitive data after they have been discarded, Tailgating - Utilizing the entrance of authorized personnel in order to gain access to secure facilities by non-authorized personal, DDoS  - Launch an army of computers to bring down a service, Man-in-the-middle - Redirects your traffic, then passes on to destination. You never know your traffic was redirected. , Rainbow Table  - An optimized, pre-built set of hashes, calculations have already been done, Need different tables for different hashing methods, Dictionary Attack - Type of Brute force attack, many common wordlists available online, Spoofing - Pretend to be something you aren't , Brute force - Very slow, Keep trying to login,

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