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 ...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Aug. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Buffer overflow is a software bug or vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized access to systems. It is one of the ...

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 ...

Snort can be buffer overflowed. About once a year, Snort gets a buffer overflow vulnerability. Any piece of additional software in a defense strategy has to be carefully considered (e.g. Snort, ...

A compiler included in Microsoft Corp.’s newly announced Visual C++ .Net is vulnerable to buffer overflow attacks, security firm Cigital Inc. warned this morning. “The Microsoft compiler was ...

Google also announced in an official blog post that 28 different successful Chrome hacks have just been found. Nine of the 28 successful hacks are considered by Google to be "high" level threats.

Pour a 12-ounce can of soda into an eight-ounce glass, and you've got spilled soda and a sticky mess. Hackers know this principle, too. But when they apply it in crafting viruses and worms, the mess ...

If you don’t succeed the first seven times, try, tryagain. That seems to be the lesson today as Microsoft Corp. acknowledged new vulnerabilities in the Telnet code included in Windows 2000, eight ...