Last week I summarized the difficulties in preventing buffer overflows in complex software and introduced fuzzers. With multiple buffer overflows announced every week on some of the world’s most ...

Many times when updates or security patches appear for the OS or applications, a common reason for the update is that an attacker can make the program execute arbitrary code, usually by tricking a ...

Like so much malware before it, the dreaded Conficker worm spreads primarily through a type of software bug called a “buffer overflow” — a class of vulnerability first mass-exploited by the Morris ...

New research from Eclypsium details a simple buffer overflow bug that could impact billions of devices using Linux and Windows operating systems. Researchers say they have found a new buffer flow ...

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 ...