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exploitation

exploitation

8 7.0
Taking advantage of a fault in computer software to get access or do harm
  • noun
  • /ˌɛksplɔɪˈteɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : explotación
  • The exploitation of software vulnerabilities can allow hackers to steal sensitive information.
  • allowing for further exploitation

So it might be possible, but it's gonna be challenging to do this Autonomous vehicle exploitation.

Examples

  • Open access journals offer important opportunities for knowledge dissemination, but there is also the potential for exploitation.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Without better legal rules of the road, harmful features of cyber exploitation will only grow in importance.

    Academic text (2017)

  • The proof necessary for attribution in cyber exploitation involving state responsibility certainly need not stand up in court.

    Academic text (2017)

  • His interests include malware defense, reverse engineering, exploitation methods, virtual machines, and automatic classification systems.

    Blog text (11)

  • Hence, there is an urgent need for the exploitation of data mining tools, which can prioritize the malaria endemic areas.

    Academic text (2007)

  • I will present a JavaScript heap exploitation library that exposes an abstract heap manipulation API.

    Blog text (11)

  • Cybersecurity experts are continuously working to prevent the exploitation of system weaknesses.

  • The recent data breach highlighted the serious consequences of software exploitation in organizations.

Synonyms

exploit
vsexploitation
  • Specialized
13 8.5

A piece of code that uses a security weakness to break into a system

is the act of taking advantage of a vulnerability to cause unauthorized harm

Antonyms

to safeguard
45 3.7

To protect someone or something from harm

How Harmful

zero-day exploit
  • Specialized
9.9
exploitation
  • Specialized
8 7.0
breach
  • Specialized
96 5.8
compromise
  • Specialized
11 6.5

Surface Forms

exploitation singular
exploitations plural

Morphology

exploitation = exploit (transparent) = exploit + ation

The cybersecurity sense is a domain-specific application of the verb 'exploit' (to take advantage of a weakness); the nominalization is morphologically regular.

Etymology

The computing sense of exploitation keeps the same idea: it comes from exploit meaning 'to use', so a hacker's 'exploit' is a way to use a weakness in software to get in or cause harm.