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 ...

Cisco has demonstrated an attack against Stack Smashing Protection in Linux systems that is facilitated by a critical vulnerability in MiniUPnP. The Internet of Things security challenge is twofold: ...

A team of security experts from the University of California, Riverside (UCR), disclosed the new attack last week in a paper published on Arxiv (.PDF), documenting their findings on the new exploit ...

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, ...

Potentially millions of routers and Internet-of-Things devices have been placed at risk of hijacking due to a stack buffer overflow security flaw. According to researcher Stefan Viehbock from SEC ...

Researchers at IBM disclosed a serious buffer overflow vulnerability in Android 4.3 and earlier that could lead to code execution. The bug is patched in KitKat, but most users are on older versions. A ...

If you encounter the error message “The system detected an overrun of a stack-based buffer in this application” when trying to run an application on your Windows ...

If a vulnerability exists in the operating system and applications you run, you can be sure that an attacker will find a way to exploit it. The only sure-fire way to eliminate such a threat is to fix ...