One of the most prevalent types of attack on networked computers is the buffer overflow. Searching for such vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Knowledge Base returns many hundreds of examples -- it's the ...

In the previous article we looked at designing a lock-free ring buffer (LFRB) in Ada, contrasting and comparing it with the C++-based version which it is based on, and highlighting the Ada way of ...

Anyone know of some good links about working with C++ memory buffers? Specifically, how to search them for specific character(s), and so forth. Just wondering if any of you have found a particular ...

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 ...