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Retrieved 2024-08-12. An exploit is a program, or piece of code, designed to find and take advantage of a security flaw or vulnerability in an application or computer system, typically for malicious purposes such as installing malware. An exploit is not malware itself, but rather it is a method used by cybercriminals to deliver malware.
A glitch is a short-lived technical fault, such as a transient one that corrects itself, making it difficult to troubleshoot. The term is particularly common in the computing and electronics industries, in circuit bending, as well as among players of video games. More generally, all types of systems including human organizations and nature ...
Cheating is present in most multiplayer online games, but it is difficult to measure. [ 3 ][ 4 ] Various methods of cheating in online games can take the form of software assistance, such as scripts and bots, and various forms of unsporting play taking advantage of exploits within the game. The Internet and darknets can provide players with the ...
On its own, an arbitrary code execution exploit will give the attacker the same privileges as the target process that is vulnerable. [11] For example, if exploiting a flaw in a web browser, an attacker could act as the user, performing actions such as modifying personal computer files or accessing banking information, but would not be able to perform system-level actions (unless the user in ...
Speedrunning. Speedrunning is the act of playing a video game, or section of a video game, with the goal of completing it as fast as possible. Speedrunning often involves following planned routes, which may incorporate sequence breaking and exploit glitches that allow sections to be skipped or completed more quickly than intended.
v. t. e. A software bug is a bug in computer software. A computer program with many or serious bugs may be described as buggy. The effects of a software bug range from minor (such as a misspelled word in the user interface) to severe (such as frequent crashing). Software bugs have been linked to disasters.
Spectre (security vulnerability) Spectre. A logo created for the vulnerability, featuring a ghost with a branch. CVE identifier (s) CVE- 2017-5753 (Spectre-V1), CVE- 2017-5715 (Spectre-V2) Date discovered. January 2018 ; 6 years ago. Affected hardware. All pre-2019 microprocessors that use branch prediction.
Code injections are a class of computer security exploits in which a vulnerable computer program misinterprets external data (usually user input) as part of its code. An attacker thereby "injects" code into the program, changing the course of its execution. The result of successful code injection can have major consequences, for example, by ...