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A compiler included in Microsoft Corp.’s newly announced Visual C++ .Net is vulnerable to buffer overflow attacks, security firm Cigital Inc. warned this morning. “The Microsoft compiler was ...

People chatting with outdated ICQ software are at risk for a potentially damaging buffer overflow exploit, AOL Time Warner cautioned in an alert posted Monday. The buffer overflow vulnerability ...

Pour a 12-ounce can of soda into an eight-ounce glass, and you've got spilled soda and a sticky mess. Hackers know this principle, too. But when they apply it in crafting viruses and worms, the mess ...

AOL acknowledged on Tuesday that its Instant Messenger client is vulnerable to a buffer-overflow attack, and promised that a fix would be available to users within days. "We have been working on a ...

Project Zero, Google's 0day bug-hunting team, today disclosed a zero-day elevation of privileges (EoP) vulnerability found in the Windows kernel and actively exploited in targeted attacks. The flaw is ...