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War Dialing

nounid 4641·updated May 9, 2026
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War dialing is a simple means of trying to identify modems in a telephone exchange that may be susceptible to compromise in an attempt to circumvent perimeter security.

MWE

Classifications

Entity Type

Threat85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

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War Dialings
possessive
War Dialing's
pluralpossessive
War Dialings'

Framework definitions

SANS Glossary of Security Terms1 senseview framework →
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War dialing is a simple means of trying to identify modems in a telephone exchange that may be susceptible to compromise in an attempt to circumvent perimeter security.

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