Database System Concepts
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Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Consider software that lets a surgeon in one location to do surgery on a patient in a different location through the internet. Who wants to keep going once the programme is over? What kind of harm are they hoping to inflict? What flaws would they try to exploit in order to do you harm? Is it possible that such flaws might inflict harm even in the absence of a hostile attacker?
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- Imagine that a piece of software used for online banking includes a hidden function that enables the developer to see the account data of any account that has a balance of at least $10,000. This is one of the scenarios that may play out. Who can say for sure what the repercussions could be if it turns out that this is an attack?arrow_forwardNext, devise a password-repair strategy.arrow_forward
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