The Industrial Control System CERT released two advisories warning of serious vulnerabilities in Schneider Electric and Emerson industrial gear. Public exploits are available for one flaw. Industrial ...

The Morris worm of 1988 was one of those industry-shaking experiences that revealed how quickly a worm could spread using a vulnerability known as a buffer overflow or buffer overrun. Around 6,000 of ...

An exploit for a flaw in censorware mandated by the Chinese government has been made publicly available for download on the internet. The buffer overflow flaw exists in the latest, patched version of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Internet Security Systems Inc. has spotted what’s believed to be the first known buffer-overflow vulnerability associated with remote-access servers, which could allow a hacker to gain control of an ...

A malicious worm named Code Red that exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in certain configurations of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems has spread rapidly over the ...

A buffer overflow found in the Mirai botnet could eliminate its ability to carry out HTTP flood attacks. But exploiting that vulnerability puts defenders in a gray area with regard to hacking back.

A likely China-nexus cyber-espionage group is actively exploiting a vulnerability in certain versions of Ivanti's Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA gateway products to drop two dangerous new ...

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 ...