Introduction to Cyber-Warfare - Proiect SEMPER FIDELIS

310 GLOSSARYNIST National Institute of Standards and TechnologyNPD the (German) neo-NAZI Political PartyNSA National Security AgencyOOB order of battleOHHDL Office of His Holiness the Dalai LamaOOP object-oriented programmingOPSEC operational securityOPT Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesOSINT open source intelligencePPDF Portable Document Format, a file format used by Adobe Acrobatphishing social engineering attacks in which mass e-mails are sent out to a population in order to entice them to openan attachment or click on a link that causes a piece of malware to infect their system, often resulting in their computersfalling under control of an adversary, often using a botnet.PIR priority information requirementsPLA People’s Liberation Army (of China)PLC programmable logic controllerPLF People’s Liberation FrontPMOI People’s Mujahedeen of IranPoP Point of PresencePPT the older file format for Microsoft PowerPoint that is susceptible to compromisePRC People’s Republic of ChinaPSYOP psychological operationsRR&S reconnaissance and surveillanceRAM Random Access Memory (the temporary memory of a computer system)RAT Remote Access ToolRBN Russian Business NetworkRDP Remote Desktop ProtocolRIM Research In Motion, makers of the BlackBerry mobile deviceRMA Revolution in Military AffairsRTU remote terminal unitRUNET the Russian InternetSSACEUR Supreme Allied Commander of European Forces (the military commander of NATO)SAR synthetic aperture radarSATCOM satellite communicationSBU Sensitive But UnclassifiedSCADA supervisory control and data acquisitionSCM Software Configuration Management systemscript kiddies amateur hackers who merely follow instructions for a given hack or exploit—rather than using technologyto fully understand or create their own exploits