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 federal directive forbids vendors from shipping software with such flaws, and flags recent Microsoft, and Ivanti zero-days as examples. FBI and CISA have issued a joint advisory to warn software ...

Bottom line: The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is once again reminding IT manufacturers and developers that buffer overflow vulnerabilities must be eradicated from software. In ...

Can there be too much of a good thing? That’s certainly true for computer input. Do an Internet search on the term buffer overflow, and you’ll come up with hundreds of thousands of links, most related ...

Project Zero, Google's 0day bug-hunting team, today disclosed a zero-day elevation of privileges (EoP) vulnerability found in the Windows kernel and actively exploited in targeted attacks. The flaw is ...

Why it matters: Every year, the Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute releases a list for the most common weakness enumeration in software, which lead to the most abused ...

Advanced Micro Devices’ Opteron and Athlon 64 processors can detect a commonly used attack against PCs connected to the Internet and render it harmless by blocking malicious code from executing, AMD ...