What is it?
Fabrication can mean 2 things:
- The act of creating or inventing something
- A lie
Information Security
Classes of Vulnerabilities
Fabrication is one of the classes of vulnerabilites
Fabrication means that an unauthorized party or entity creates fake Assets, this just like modification also breaks Integrity, a fundamental within The CIA Triad as Assets aren’t being kept whole.
Fabrication Example
- Inserting database entries
- sending false network packets
- false transactions
- sending malicious operating system updates as though they were real