Hacking, Computer, Networking + more
Hacking Abbreviations
DoS Denial of Service
DDoS Distributed Denial of Service
Dox Not an acronym, but a slang term meaning: To publicly identify or publish private information about (someone) especially as a form of punishment or revenge
FUD Fully Undetectable. For eg: A FUD virus
LEA Law Enforcement Agency
R.A.T Remote administration tool
SE Social Engineering
Skid Script Kiddie
SQLi SQL Injection
XSS Cross Site Scripting
Networking Abbreviations
AP Access Point (eg: A Wi-Fi router)
DNS Domain Name System (For converting a URL to IP address)
LAN Local Area Network
MAC Media Access Control
NAT Network Address Translation
NIC Network Interface Card
HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
HTTPS Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure
SSH Secure Shell, used to connect to servers remotely
FTP File Transfer Protocol
VM Virtual Machine
VPS Virtual Private Sever
VPN Virtual Private Network
WAN Wide Area Network
IP Internet Protocol
ISP Internet Service Provider
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
URL Uniform Resource Locator/Location
Programming Abbreviations
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
API Application Programming Interface
BIOS Basic Input Output System
CSS Cascading Style Sheets
Nix Unix based operating system, usually referred tohere when referring to DDoS’in
HTML Hyper Text Markup Language
JS JavaScript
XML eXtensible Markup Language
Computer Hardware Abbreviations
CD Compact Disk
CDR Compact Disk Recorder
CDRW Compact Disk Re-Writer
CD-ROM Compact Disk: Read Only Memory
CPU Central Processing Unit
DDR Double Data Rate
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
DVD Digital Versatile Disc
FPS Frame Per Second
FPU Floating Point Unit
HDD Hard Disk Drive
IC Integrated Circuit
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PSU Power Supply Unit
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RAM Random Access Memory
ROM Read Only Memory
SSD Solid State Drive
UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply
USB Universal Serial Bus
Other Abbreviations
CLI Command Line Interface
DMCA Digital Millennium Copyright Act
GUI Graphical User Interface
I/O Input & Output
KISS Keep it simple stupid
PDF Portable Document Format
PGP Pretty Good Privacy
OS Operating System
TLD Top level domain (e.g: .com, .org)
RSS Really simple syndication
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
PASTA Process for Attack Simulation and Threat Analysis
DAST Provides dynamic application security testing
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