Glossary

A decentralised file sharing system. Files are stored on and served by the personal computers of the users.

A security assessment designed to exercise real-world scenarios in an attempt to achieve a specific goal, such as compromising critical systems or data.

A property of key establishment whereby compromise of long-term keying material does not enable recovery of previously established session keys.

A device used to share a set of peripherals between multiple computers. For example, a keyboard, video monitor and mouse.

Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

A number allocated to an individual and used to validate electronic transactions.

Information or an opinion about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable: whether the information or opinion is true or not; and whether the information or opinion is recorded in a material form or not.

Information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context.

A way of harvesting personal information, where a hacker puts a malicious code on your computer that redirects you to a fake site.

Untargeted, mass emails sent to many people asking for sensitive information (such as bank details), encouraging them to open a malicious attachment, or visit a fake website that will ask the user to provide sensitive information or download malicious content.
See also 'spear phishing' and 'whaling'.