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What is a software vulnerability?

Dated Posted:

05.11.2006

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Software applications, such as the Microsoft operating system or your web browser, are complex feats of engineering, often with millions of lines of programming code. Inevitably, errors creep into the code, and some of these errors create security vulnerabilities that malefactors can take advantage of with exploits and other malware. Ironically, the people behind these exploits subvert one of software's most useful attributes – its ability to interact with other software programs – to their own ends.

 

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