The developers of an operating system or vendor application might issue this to prevent intruders from taking advantage of a weakness in their programming.

Related MCQs

• This is an attack on a computer system that takes advantage of a particular vulnerability that the system offers to intruders.
• An intruder might install this on a networked computer to collect user ids and passwords from other machines on the network.
• This is a program in which harmful code is contained inside apparently harmless programming or data.
• Which of the following is an advantage of anomaly detection?
• Today, many Internet businesses and users take advantage of cryptography based on this approach.
• This is an assault on the integrity of a security system in which the attacker substitutes a section of cipher text (encrypted text) with a different section that looks like (but is not the same as) the one removed.