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, ...

What just happened? Google just released an emergency security update to patch a newly discovered vulnerability in the Chrome web browser. The buffer overflow-based exploit was discovered by Clément ...

Hundreds of millions of cable modems are vulnerable to critical takeover attacks by hackers halfway around the world, researchers said. Cable Haunt, as the researchers have named their ...

Chrome users, all 2.65 billion of you, need to be on high alert (for the third time this month) because Google has confirmed multiple new High-level hacks of the browser. Google has confirmed multiple ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Facebook acknowledged last week a massive security vulnerability in its ...

This is a bit *nix and a bit programming, but I was hoping someone here could help me out. We're having a discussion over in the Ars Mac Ach about some recent security issues with OS X. One of them is ...

Cisco has released security updates to patch a ClamAV denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability, which has proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code. Tracked as CVE-2025-20128, the vulnerability is caused by a ...

Bottom line: The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is once again reminding IT manufacturers and developers that buffer overflow vulnerabilities must be eradicated from software. In ...

Proof-of-concept exploits have already surfaced online for a high-severity flaw in GNU C Library's dynamic loader, allowing local attackers to gain root privileges on major Linux distributions. Dubbed ...