Cybersecurity Terminology

machine learning and evolution

- A field concerned with designing and developing artificial intelligence algorithms for automated knowledge discovery and innovation by information systems.

macro virus

- A type of malicious code that attaches itself to documents and uses the macro programming capabilities of the document’s application to execute, replicate, and spread or propagate itself.

malicious applet

- A small application program that is automatically downloaded and executed and that performs an unauthorized function on an information system.

malicious code

- Program code intended to perform an unauthorized function or process that will have adverse impact on the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of an information system.

malicious logic

- Hardware, firmware, or software that is intentionally included or inserted in a system to perform an unauthorized function or process that will have adverse impact on the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of an information system.

Malvertising

- a malicious attack that involves injecting harmful code into legitimate online advertising networks

malware

- Software that compromises the operation of a system by performing an unauthorized function or process.

Metaverse

- A shared, immersive, persistent, 3D virtual space where humans experience life in ways they could not in the physical world

mitigation

- The application of one or more measures to reduce the likelihood of an unwanted occurrence and/or lessen its consequences.

MitM (Man in the Middle)

- a man-in-the-middle attack is a cyberattack where the attacker secretly relays and possibly alters the communications between two parties who believe that they are directly communicating

moving target defense

- The presentation of a dynamic attack surface, increasing an adversary's work factor necessary to probe, attack, or maintain presence in a cyber target.