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 ...

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 ...

A new alert from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has outlined strategies to eliminate buffer overflow vulnerabilities in ...

A recently fixed vulnerability in WhatsApp allowed attackers to spread spyware to mobile devices with just a phone call. The attackers exploited a vulnerability known as buffer overflow, a type of ...

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 ...

The BSD libc library was updated recently to address a buffer overflow vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code. The BSD libc library was updated recently to address ...

Apple's Activation Lock feature, introduced in iOS 7 in 2013, deters thieves by associating your iPhone and iPad with your Apple ID. Even if a thief steals your device, puts it into Recovery Mode, and ...

The Industrial Control System CERT released two advisories warning of serious vulnerabilities in Schneider Electric and Emerson industrial gear. Public exploits are available for one flaw. Industrial ...

A common cause of malfunctioning software. If the amount of data copied into a memory buffer exceeds the size of the buffer, the extra data will overwrite whatever is in the adjacent bytes, and those ...

The original PlayStation might be pushing 30 years old now, but that doesn’t mean hackers have given up on chipping away at it. A new exploit released by [Marcos Del Sol Vives] allows users to run ...