(\There's a New Talk in the Block\ figure of speech)
After watching Chicago Hope, ER and Grey's Anatomy I can now follow some of the medical lingo thrown here and there. With NYPD Blue, the various CSI's and Law & Orders, I got to know some police slang. From LA Law, The Practice, and Law & Order (2 for the price of 1!) I learned some lawyer talk. Even Buffy the Vampire Slayer enriched my gothic- vocab.
And now it's the security industry's time to put a list together before we find ourselves ashamedly bewildered couch potatoes. While not as comprehensive as Douglas Adams' (and John Lloyd) "Meaning of Liff", here are some terms I gathered for those very common infosec concepts that we all need names for:
- Malvertisements: malicious ads that, once clicked, route the user to some malware site. Drive-by-downloads thrive on malvertisements.
- Freetards: mainly used to describe those that click on malvertisements promoting free proprietary software, free movies, and free songs. Remember, you get what you pay for (or perhaps, you pay for what you get for free).
- Hacktivism: Hacking with a political / social agenda. Hacktivists usually target popular websites in order to deface them with their message. A popular defacement method is SQL Injection.
- Great Firewall of China:
- Hacker- ogler: one that hacks into a Webcam.
And may I add one of my own:
- Defudder: The act of bloggers and forum members to refute the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) vendors try to feed the non-technical user.
Let's practice some geek talk now: "Don't be a freetard and click that link! It's probably maltvertisement planted there by a hacktivist who couldn't get past the great firewall of China"
Feel free to post your dictionary additions in the comments sections!
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