In cybersecurity, the term “exploit” is used to represent a piece of code, data or sequence of commands that takes advantage of a vulnerability. This code is usually broken up into three distinct ...

In mid-May, a nasty security bug was discovered in popular messaging app WhatsApp that allowed hackers to install powerful malware on iPhone and Android devices. Interestingly, to exploit the bug, ...

For years buffer overflow has been the favorite target of online attackers, but no more: Cross-site scripting is now the biggest culprit That's the scoop from Mitre Corp., which later this week will ...

Cisco has patched a handful of buffer overflows in several of its WebEx products that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or crash a vulnerable application. The bugs affect the WebEx WRF ...