Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Hans Daniel Jasperson has over a decade of experience in public policy research, with an ...

A common hesitation when stepping into the Penetration Testing with Kali (PWK) course is the section on buffer overflow (BOF) exploits. This course does not expect you to do any advanced exploit ...

Abstract: Buffer overflow is one of the most critical software vulnerabilities with numerous functional and security impacts on memory boundaries and program calls. An exploitable buffer overflow, ...

Stack-based buffer overflows are more common, and leverage stack memory that only exists during the execution time of a function. Heap-based attacks are harder to carry out and involve flooding the ...

Abstract: The increasing number of available interconnected Internet of Things (IoT) devices has exposed many security vulnerabilities. This paper presents an analysis of those security concerns ...