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CWE

CWE stands for "Common weakness enumeration" and is a way to define a particular security issue in programming code. CWE is a security effort lead by the US government and industry to define a taxonomy for coding problems that lead to security vulnerabilities. Each vulnerability reported has an CVE ID and should be linked to the underlying CWEs that lead to the issue. There are currently approximately 800 items defined in CWE and efforts are underway to map their technical impacts to what kinds of problems the weakness may cause, as well as ISO 27010. CWE is often known for it's CWE Top 25 and On the Cusp lists of the most common software security problems. See https://cwe.mitre.org

CAN (Controller Area Network)

Controller Area Network aka CAN aka CAN Bus is a wiring standard for vehicles that enables communication between various components and devices without having a host computer. For example doors, brakes, transmission.

denial-of-service

Attackers try to make a computer, network, or application unavailable to end-users. For example by overloading it with too much traffic as in a distributed denial of service.

DDoS (denial-of-service)

Attackers try to make a computer, network, or application unavailable to end-users. For example by overloading it with too much traffic as in a distributed denial of service.

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology

BASIC

Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. A programming language designed specifically for beginners.

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