home/glossary/Scavenging

Scavenging

nounid 3988·updated May 12, 2026
candidate

Searching through object residue to acquire data.

Attested in

No recorded attestations. They are written when an MWE tagging stage is completed, stamped with the pack version and the document’s digest.

Classifications

Entity Type

Threat0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

Sensitivity

Regulated75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

Cui65%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

plural
Scavengings
possessive
Scavenging's
pluralpossessive
Scavengings'

Framework definitions

SANS Glossary of Security Terms1 senseview framework →
§1
Searching through data residue in a system to gain unauthorized knowledge of sensitive data.
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
§1
Searching through object residue to acquire data.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
Searching through object residue to acquire data.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
Searching through object residue to acquire data.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

Outgoing relationships

No outgoing triples
This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.

Incoming relationships

No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.