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 ...

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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...

Cybersecurity discussions, whether in blogs, conferences, forums or elsewhere, tend to focus on concepts like anomaly detection, use of AI in cyber defense, security hygiene, phishing or ransomware.

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 ...

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 ...