13: Application Security Quiz

When two or more events try to execute at the same time, causing the system to be unstable and vulnerable to an attack.

• Authentication attacks

• Buffer overflows

• Race conditions

• Input validation attacks

What type of attack target user identity and can be stopped by applications strong passwords ?

• Authorization attacks

• Race conditions

• Input validation attacks

• Authentication attacks

What type of attack can be solved by using "Principle of least privilege" ?

• Authorization attacks

• Race conditions

• Input validation attacks

• Authentication attacks

What type of attack can occur when we do not properly account for the size of the data input into our applications?

• Buffer overflows

• Race conditions

• Input validation attacks

• Authorization attacks

What type of attack can occur when multiple processes or multiple threads within a process control or share access to a particular resource, and the correct handling of that resource depends on the proper ordering or timing of transactions?

• Authorization attacks

• Race conditions

• Buffer overflows

• Input validation attacks

What type of attack can occur when attackers target encryption algorithms or implementations to steal sensitive data or disrupt secure communications?

• Buffer overflows

• Cryptographic attacks

• Race conditions

• Authorization attacks