Buffer Overflow Attacks occur as a result of excess data being input into a system memory buffer. Moreover, when the memory buffer’s capacity has been reached, the music will stop playing. To avoid ...

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Here’s how a buffer overflow attack happens: A cracker acquires a popular piece of Internet-related software, such as a Web server or an instant messaging client, and analyzes the code. It’s pretty ...

When the Spectre and Meltdown attacks were disclosed earlier this year, the expectation was that these attacks would be the first of many, as researchers took a closer look at the way that the ...

In mid-May, a nasty security bug was discovered in popular messaging app WhatsApp that allowed hackers to install powerful malware on iPhone and Android devices. Interestingly, to exploit the bug, ...

This excerpt is from Chapter 7, Buffer Overflow of Exploiting Software: How to Break Code written by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw, and published by Addison-Wesley ...

Security researchers Vladimir Kiriansky and Carl Waldspurger have uncovered two buffer-overflow derivatives of the Spectre microprocessor bug. In a paper describing the flaws – dubbed Spectre 1.1 and ...

Consumer router models allowed authenticated users to take unrestricted remote control over TL-WR940N and TL-WR941ND routers. Two models of TP-Link’s budget routers are vulnerable to zero-day flaws ...

A compiler included in Microsoft Corp.’s newly announced Visual C++ .Net is vulnerable to buffer overflow attacks, security firm Cigital Inc. warned this morning. “The Microsoft compiler was ...

People chatting with outdated ICQ software are at risk for a potentially damaging buffer overflow exploit, AOL Time Warner cautioned in an alert posted Monday. The buffer overflow vulnerability ...