Security News

Revealed: The 25 most dangerous software bug types – mem corruption, so hot right now
2019-09-18 06:56

Tired: SQLi. Expired: Format string exploits. Hired: Anyone who can port code from C/C++ On Tuesday, the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) team from MITRE, a non-profit focused on information...

New Microsoft Tool Analyzes Memory Corruption Bugs
2017-10-04 17:05

A newly released analysis tool from Microsoft helps security engineers and developers investigate memory corruption bugs. read more

Memory Corruption Mitigations Doing Their Job (Threatpost)
2017-04-03 17:00

At the Security Analyst Summit, Mark Dowd described how memory corruption mitigations are successfully driving up exploit development costs.

Obihai Patches Memory Corruption, DoS, CSRF Vulnerabilities in IP Phones (Threatpost)
2016-08-22 19:58

Obihai Technology recently patched a slew of issues in its ObiPhone IP phone products that could have led to memory corruption, a buffer overflow, and denial of service conditions, among other outcomes.

Corruption, Code Execution Vulnerabilities Patched in Open Source Archiver 7-Zip (Threatpost)
2016-05-12 19:11

Several vulnerabilities were fixed this week in the file archiver 7-Zip which could have led to arbitrary code execution and file corruption.

Corruption: The magnitude of risk (Help Net Security)
2016-03-11 14:00

40 percent of all compliance officers surveyed believe their company’s bribery and corruption risks will increase in 2016, according to a new report by Kroll and the Ethisphere Institute. One in...

Adobe Patches Memory Corruption Flaw in Shockwave (Threatpost)
2015-10-27 17:05

Adobe updated its Shockwave Player, patching a critical memory corruption vulnerability in the software.