Terminologies Used Under Hacking

Threat: A threat is an environment or situation that could lead to a potential

breach of security. Ethical hackers look for and prioritize threats when

performing a security analysis.

An Exploit: An exploit is a piece of software that takes advantage of a bug,

glitch, or vulnerability, leading to unauthorized access, privilege escalation, or

denial of service on a computer system.

Vulnerability: A vulnerability is an existence of a software flaw, logic design,

or implementation error that can lead to an unexpected and undesirable

event executing bad or damaging instructions to the system. In easy word

vulnerability is weakness in system.

Payload: Payload is agent that helps in taking advantage of vulnerability in

remote hacking.

Attack: An attack occurs when a system is compromised based on a vulnerability.