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What is a buffer overflow? And how hackers exploit these vulnerabilities

January 23, 2020 1:35 am

Advertisement Buffer overflow definition A buffer overflow or overrun is a memory safety issue where a program does not properly check the boundaries of an allocated fixed-length memory buffer and writes more data than it can hold. This causes data to overflow to adjacent memory space, overwriting the information there, which often leads to crashes...

IoT cybersecurity’s worst kept secret

January 17, 2020 9:04 am

Advertisement By improving access to data and taking advantage of them in fundamentally different ways to drive profitability, IT security executives are rapidly changing perceptions of their office. Although making better sense of and use of data may be standard fare in other areas of the enterprise, who knew that modern IoT cybersecurity solutions would...

California’s IoT cybersecurity bill: What it gets right and wrong

January 9, 2020 10:13 am

Advertisement California state lawmakers should be lauded for SB 327, their well-intentioned legislative attempt at tackling one of the most pressing issues in the tech sector: IoT security. But as the law went into effect at the start of the year, they will also (unfortunately) soon be faced with the reality that it is inadequate...

Over half of organizations were successfully phished in 2019

Issued by: Help Net Security

Nearly 90 percent of global organizations were targeted with BEC and spear phishing attacks in 2019, reflecting cybercriminals’ continued focus on compromising individual end users, a Proofpoint survey reveals. Seventy-eight percent also reported that security awareness training activities resulted in measurable reductions in phishing susceptibility....

What Is Threat Management? Common Challenges and Best Practices

Issued by: Security Intelligence

Threat management, or cyber threat management, is a framework often used by cybersecurity professionals to manage the life cycle of a threat in an effort to identify and respond to it with speed and accuracy. The foundation of threat management is a seamless integration between...

To Avoid Disruption, Ransomware Victims Continue to Pay Up

Issued by: Dark Reading

Ransomware attacks on organizations are likely to continue unabated in the near term if the results of a new survey by Proofpoint are any indication. The security vendor recently polled 600 IT security professionals from around the world on trends related to phishing and other...

There is no easy fix to AI privacy problems

Issued by: Help Net Security

Artificial intelligence – more specifically, the machine learning (ML) subset of AI – has a number of privacy problems. Not only does ML require vast amounts of data for the training process, but the derived system is also provided with access to even greater volumes...

What is a buffer overflow? And how hackers exploit these vulnerabilities

Issued by: CSO

Buffer overflow definition A buffer overflow or overrun is a memory safety issue where a program does not properly check the boundaries of an allocated fixed-length memory buffer and writes more data than it can hold. This causes data to overflow to adjacent memory space,...

Mitsubishi Electric discloses data breach, possible data leak

Issued by: Help Net Security

Japanese multinational Mitsubishi Electric has admitted that it had suffered a data breach some six months ago, and that “personal information and corporate confidential information may have been leaked.” The company, though, claims that “sensitive information on social infrastructure such as defense, electric power, and...

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