Concepts & Terms
Concepts & Terms
During the course of the project, a number of concepts and terms were mentioned in passing that could not be covered in detail because of the very short amount of time available during the Excelerator program. This section is a list of those items along with definitions and/or pointers to further information.
| Term | Definition |
| Backdoor | |
| BookStack | BookStack is an open source, opinionated (it has a pre-defined organizational structure based on shelves, books, chapters, and pages) wiki application that you can host on your own server. It is great for collecting documentation and notes, and is the current application that runs the infrastructuresquad.com site. More information available at: https://www.bookstackapp.com |
| DDOS | |
| DHCP | |
| DNS | |
| Linksys | |
| Mobile router ("mob rtr" on diagram) | |
| Phishing | |
| RPi | |
| Switch ("sw" on diagram) | |
| Sawing off your tree branch | |
| VLAN | |
| cleartext | |
| ciphertext | |
| asymmetric encryption | |
| symmetric encryption | |
| containers: OS vs Docker | |
| Wireguard | |
| OpenVPN | |
| Tailscale | |
| traceroute, mtr | |
| ICMP | |
| TTL | |
| Wireshark | |
| tcpdump | |
| IP spoofing | |
| Pastebin | |
| Proxmox | |
| packet sniffing | |
| URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and URI | |
| Viscosity | |
| Syncthing | |
| API | |
| REST | |
| SQL | |
| SQLite | |
| n8n | |
| ping | |
| NTP | |
| tunnel | |
| SIEM | |
| virtual machine (VM) | |
| proxy (forward & reverse) | |
| Yubikey | |
| ssh | |
| telnet | |
| netcat or nc |