Articles

Demystifying cybersecurity acronyms for non-technical leaders

Category:
Cyber

Data type harvested

How it is captured

Why attackers want it

Business impact

Full URLs and referrers

Site-wide access and network observation

Reconstruct behaviour, infer tools and vendors, build profiles

Competitive intelligence, targeted phishing

Search queries and browsing history

History, like telemetry, is sent to servers

Advertising value and intent data

Privacy breach, policy violations

Page content from authenticated apps

Content scripts reading the DOM

Emails, tickets, internal docs, customer records

Data breach, regulatory exposure

Cookies or session-adjacent identifiers

Leakage through URLs or page scraping

Session hijack preparation and correlation

Account compromise risk

Extension unique identifiers

Background beacons and storage

Long-term tracking across sessions

Persistent surveillance

Written By:
Cymon Skinner