Hackers have exploited buffer overflow weaknesses in stacks since the 1980s. Now a new variation involving memory heaps could catch many firms unawares, says Neil Barrett
The first hacking "magic wand" I saw was the buffer overflow exploit used by Robert Morris in the original Internet Worm back in the late 1980s. Morris's father worked for the National Security A...
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