The Morris worm of 1988 was one of those industry-shaking experiences that revealed how quickly a worm could spread using a vulnerability known as a buffer overflow or buffer overrun. Around 6,000 of ...
Over 660,000 exposed Rsync servers are potentially vulnerable to six new vulnerabilities, including a critical-severity heap-buffer overflow flaw that allows remote code execution on servers. Rsync is ...
Even though the term "fileless malware" was only coined recently, fileless attacks have been around for more than three decades. You may have heard of the more well-known names, like buffer-overflow, ...
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 ...
Kernel-mode Hardware-enforced Stack Protection is a security feature introduced in Windows 11 22H2 that protects systems from various memory attacks, such as stack buffer overflows. Microsoft added ...
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 ...
Google has plugged a security vulnerability in its Chrome browser that the company considers critical. The latest Chrome release — version 2.0.172.33 — fixes an issue that could let a malicious hacker ...
If you don’t succeed the first seven times, try, tryagain. That seems to be the lesson today as Microsoft Corp. acknowledged new vulnerabilities in the Telnet code included in Windows 2000, eight ...