A Google security engineer studying an SSH connection to a host unexpectedly discovered a deeper, darker secret in the GNU C Library (glibc). Google later proved that a bug in this library could be ...

TrapC is a new variant of the C programming language that specializes in cybersecurity. It aims to prevent the memory problems and buffer overflows that are common in C and C++. If users enter more ...

Cisco has released security updates to patch a ClamAV denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability, which has proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code. Tracked as CVE-2025-20128, the vulnerability is caused by a ...

Bottom line: The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is once again reminding IT manufacturers and developers that buffer overflow vulnerabilities must be eradicated from software. In ...