What could go wrong?
Over the past few decades, there have been tens of thousands of successful malicious software security attacks. These include a data attack that affected approximately 40 million Target customers, the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018, which involved unauthorized access to user data through a third-party app’s API, and an XSS scripting attack that, within 20 hours, infected over one million Myspace profiles.
Hundreds of thousands of unintended user mistakes are due to poorly designed or implemented software. These mistakes often go unreported, even though the software or experiment may fail, or humans are harmed. Some examples include NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter, where the spacecraft’s navigation software used metric units, while ground control provided data in imperial units. This mismatch resulted in incorrect calculations, causing the orbiter to approach Mars at too low an altitude, ultimately leading to its failure. Another...
