C836 WGU COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+

bounds checking - CORRECT ANSWER-to set a limit on the amount of data we expect to receive to set aside storage for that data *required in most programming languages * prevents buffer overflows race conditions - CORRECT ANSWER-A type of software development vulnerability that occurs when multiple processes or multiple threads within a process control or share access to a particular resource, and the correct handling of that resource depends on the proper ordering or timing of transactions input validation - CORRECT ANSWER-a type of attack that can occur when we fail to validate the input to our applications or take steps to filter out unexpected or undesirable content format string attack - CORRECT ANSWER-a type of input validation attacks in which certain print functions within a programming language can be used to manipulate or view the internal memory of an application authentication attack - CORRECT ANSWER-A type of attack that can occur when we fail to use strong authentication mechanisms for our applications authorization attack - CORRECT ANSWER-A type of attack that can occur when we fail to use authorization best practices for our applications cryptographic attack - CORRECT ANSWER-A type of attack that can occur when we fail to properly design our security mechanisms when implementing cryptographic controls in our applications client-side attack - CORRECT ANSWER-A type of attack that takes advantage of weaknesses in the software loaded on client machines or one that uses social engineering techniques to trick us into going along with the attack XSS (Cross Site Scripting) - CORRECT ANSWER-an attack carried out by placing code in the form of a scripting lan