Richard Williams

Buffer-Overflow Attacks: Perimeter Defenses No Panacea

By now youve probably read about, if not experienced, buffer-overflow attacks. In fact, recent CERT statistics indicate that more than 60 percent of advisories refer to buffer-overflow attacks. And because many of the attacks come through enterprise intranets (which are open by design), perimeter defenses cant provide the protection required to keep these malicious data […]