Here’s how a buffer overflow attack happens: A cracker acquires a popular piece of Internet-related software, such as a Web server or an instant messaging client, and analyzes the code. It’s ...

AOL Time Warner warns people to update outdated ICQ software versions or risk becoming a casualty of a potentially damaging buffer overflow attack.

BANGALORE: In the fourth annual CanSecWest/core03 conference held during April 9-11, 2003, Theo DeRaadt outlined the major advanced made by OpenBSD especially on the security front. OpenBSD has always ...

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 ...

Cigital warned that a Visual C++ .Net compiler just announced by Microsoft is susceptible to a buffer overflow attack.

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.

This may come as a surprise: Integer overflow is now one of the biggest vulnerabilities reported in vendor operating systems. Buffer overflow maintains its top ranking as the most exploited security ...

A lot of the recent MS security patches are buffer related. "Unchecked buffer" this, "buffer overflow" that, etc, etc...<BR><BR>This may be a very deep question, but I'm going to ask it anyway in ...