During a penetration testing engagement for a financial institution, you have been tasked with evaluating the system's resilience against intentional data tampering. While monitoring the transaction processing system, which type of attack would be most effective for inducing errors or alterations in the data, potentially leading to financial discrepancies?
The correct answer is 'Bit flipping attack' because this technique involves changing bits within a packet or file at a low level, resulting in data corruption. Bit flipping can disrupt the integrity of the system's processing and lead to financial inaccuracies. 'Service interruption' is incorrect because this would cause disruption of access rather than data integrity issues. Similarly, 'Resource exhaustion' may cause a denial of service but wouldn't necessarily corrupt data. 'Network sniffing' is used for eavesdropping on data on the network and doesn't directly lead to data corruption.
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