<ul><li>The cybersecurity world is full of technical lingo and jargon.</li><li>This glossary includes some of the most common — and not so common — words and expressions that we use in our articles.</li><li>Advanced persistent threat (APT) is often categorized as a hacker.</li><li>Arbitrary code execution can be achieved remotely or with physical access.</li><li>Hackers are historically categorized as either “black hat” or “white hat,” usually depending on the motivations.</li><li>Botnets are networks of hijacked internet-connected devices for the purposes of being used in cyberattacks.</li><li>A bug is essentially the cause of a software glitch.</li><li>Command-and-control servers (also known as C2 servers) are used by cybercriminals to remotely manage and control their fleets.</li><li>Cryptojacking is when a device’s computational power is used, with or without the owner’s permission, to generate cryptocurrency.</li><li>Data breach is when protected data was confirmed to have improperly left a system from where it was originally stored.</li></ul>

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