Malicious attacks

Martin McBride, 2017-02-15
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Software errors and malfunctions can occur due to mistakes, accidents or random events. However, in an interconnected world, websites and other systems are often accessible to the entire world. Inevitably, some of those people will have malicious or criminal intent.

This topic looks at the likely targets of malicious users (ie what they are attempting to damage or steal), and the sort of attacks they might use (and how to defend against them). First we look at some basic concepts of security.

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Creating robust programs

1. Creating robust programs
2. Writing code
3. Malicious attacks
4. - Security concepts
5. - Motives
6. - Exploits and defences
7. - Example - SQL injection
8. Maintainable code
9. - Basic rules
10. - Code structure
11. - Comments and layout
12. - Naming items
13. - Globals and side effects
14. - Change control

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