Tampering

Tampering is modifying something you’re not supposed to modify. Tampering violates integrity. It can include packets on the wire (or wireless), bits on disk, or the bits in memory.

Typical victims include data stores, data flows, or processes.

Example Threats

• Tampering with a file
• racing to create a file (tampering with the file system)
• tampering with a network packet
• tampering with memory.