Describe and define a vulnerability. Describe and define an exploit. Describe an

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Describe and define a vulnerability. Describe and define an exploit. Describe and define an attack. Lastly, describe how all three of these concepts work together and lead to a compromised system. Describe and define a vulnerability. Describe and define an exploit. Describe and define an attack. Lastly, describe how all three of these concepts work together and lead to a compromised system. Describe and define a vulnerability. Describe and define an exploit. Describe and define an attack. Lastly, describe how all three of these concepts work together and lead to a compromised system.

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Vulnerability is a flaw/defect/loop hole in a system...which can be lead to a security attack/information attack by a attacker..it is often called as security risk...

vulnerability may be software/hardware or networking.../personl/ physical...

Exploit is the method that is being used during the attack on the computer system...

Attack is the action of taken down or hacking the information from the computer system...

now..

lets take an example :

let for a website...the login password is only 3 letters length...

so..for this site the vulnerability is a week password which is only of length 3

now..here attacker will use...brute force method (exploiting) to attack the site...inorder..gain the information...

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