Race Condition Attack
Race Condition Attack is a type of cybersecurity threat that occurs when a program or system is vulnerable to concurrent access from multiple users or processes.
In simpler terms, imagine you and your friend both want to grab a toy from a toy box at the same time. If there’s only one toy left, you might race to see who can grab it first. In the world of computers, this can happen when two different programs are trying to access the same piece of data or resource at the same time.
This type of attack can lead to unpredictable behavior, such as the wrong data being accessed or the system crashing.
To prevent Race Condition Attacks, developers can implement techniques such as locks, semaphores, and mutexes, which regulate access to shared resources and ensure that only one program can access them at a time.