PrepAway - Latest Free Exam Questions & Answers

Inadequate programming and coding practices introduce t…

Inadequate programming and coding practices introduce the risk of:

PrepAway - Latest Free Exam Questions & Answers

A.
phishing.

B.
buffer overflow exploitation.

C.
SYN flood.

D.
brute force attacks.

Explanation:
Buffer overflow exploitation may occur when programs do not check the length of the data that are
input into a program. An attacker can send data that exceed the length of a buffer and override part
of the program with malicious code. The countermeasure is proper programming and good coding

practices. Phishing, SYN flood and brute force attacks happen independently of programming and
coding practices.


Leave a Reply