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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The federal directive forbids vendors from shipping software with such flaws, and flags recent Microsoft, and Ivanti zero-days as examples. FBI and CISA have issued a joint advisory to warn software ...

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 ...

COMPANY NEWS: The Internet of Things (IoT) has become an increasingly popular target for cyber attacks in recent years because these devices are often poorly secured and can be easily compromised. To ...

Michael Lynn, the former Internet Security Systems researcher who disclosed information about how unpatched Cisco routers could be hacked, said he is seeking to settle with Cisco and ISS over the ...