Almost every company out there has an old, custom-built program that every employee uses every day. You may be leery of replacing this system since it was made just for you. But clearly, legacy systems come with risks that are difficult to mitigate or eliminate. Your Buffer Overrun Counterme...
A buffer overflow can occur inadvertently or when a malicious actor causes it. Athreat actorcan send carefully crafted input -- referred to asarbitrary code-- to a program. The program attempts to store the input in a buffer that isn't large enough for the input. If the excess data is ...
Spear phishing is a social engineering attack that tricks a victim into revealing sensitive data, install malware or initiate an APT. Learn how spear phishing differs from phishing and whaling, as well as the best methods to mitigate these attacks.
Most commercial applications have patches available to mitigate buffer vulnerabilities. But applications developed in-house are just as susceptible to buffer overflow, and vulnerabilities may fly under the patching radar. Read up on the four kinds of buffer overflow attacks and how to defend ...
In the case of Crescendo, our teams made software updates to the LLM technology behind Microsoft’s AI offerings, including our Copilot AI assistants, to mitigate the impact of this multiturn AI guardrail bypass. It is important to note that as more researchers inside and out...
We wanted to identify countermeasures as the actions to take to help mitigate risks, reduce the attack surface, and address vulnerabilities. Just by chunking up the application security landscape into threats, attacks, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures, we empowered more people to think more deeply...
“Lockdown Mode,” it severely restricts the functionality of your Apple smartphone, tablet or laptop. Its purpose is to reduce the success rate of targeted attacks, which politicians, activists and journalists, among others, are subjected to. Lockdown Mode is set to appear in the upcoming ...
As hardware ages, it becomes more prone to failures and performance issues. Regular maintenance and upgrades can help mitigate this, but eventually, replacement is inevitable. Security Threats: Cyberattacks and security breaches pose a constant threat to business networks. From malware infiltrations to...
Network applications often suffer from issues like data races, buffer overflows, and data loss handling, particularly in distributed environments. These issues make networks less efficient and more vulnerable to attacks. Rust eliminates such vulnerabilities, helping developers deliver high performance and ...
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