Definition: Buffer overflow occurs when a program tries to store more data in a temporary storage area than it can hold. Writing outside the allocated memory area can corrupt the data, crash the ...

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.

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 ...

US authorities have labelled buffer overflow vulnerabilities "unforgivable defects”, pointed to the presence of the holes in products from the likes of Microsoft and VMware, and urged all software ...

Check out best practices for preventing buffer overflow attacks. Plus, Europol offers best practices for banks to adopt quantum-resistant cryptography. Meanwhile, an informal Tenable poll looks at ...