Question

Windows vulnerability that has been exploited widely, such as the SQL Injection, Buffer Overflow.

a) What windows vulnerability in SQL Injection is and explain with references?

b) What windows vulnerability in Buffer Overflow is and explain with references?

c) What the weakness windows was and how it was exploited?

d) What was the impact to society and economy?

Answer 1

Yes, the windows vulnerabilities are by SQL injection and buffer overflow.

(a). The SQL injection is a type of attack by an adversary by the use of malicious SQL statements. The SQL injection allows the attacker to bypass the Windows authentication security measures. So, SQL injection allows the user to gain unauthorized access to the windows system by the use of SQL queries. Examples are: Attacker can hack a database of the server which stores all the login credentials of the users in the database, so this way malicious users gains access to the windows system.

(b). The buffer overflow attack by an attacker makes the attacker enter more data into the program allocated buffer, this leads to leaks in the windows memory. The buffer overflow in windows is due to a lack of coding by the programmer, this makes the door for the adversary to enter and exploit the windows system.

(c). There is the various weakness of windows, given as follows:

1. The malicious user can easily bypass the security boot of windows.

2. The overflow attack to the buffer is the weakness of windows.

3. The denial of service overflow attack, is to make a particular service unavailable to the user.

4. There is also a weakness in windows transport layer security, which also leads to denial of service to the user.

(d).

The impact of this vulnerabilities on the society leads to shifting of the trust of the society from windows, it makes user uncomfortable as the user perform a lot of personal work on the system which could be breached by an attacker.

The economic impact to Microsoft would be that people will give preference to different other Linux or macOS operating system rather than using windows, where they know their data is not safe. So, the deviation of users will lead to a shift in user interest.

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