The hottest trend these days in network intrusion is to exploit buffer overruns, a technique where-by you feed a program more data than it has allocated, overwriting the memory in the hope of making the program do something it would normally . . .
The hottest trend these days in network intrusion is to exploit buffer overruns, a technique where-by you feed a program more data than it has allocated, overwriting the memory in the hope of making the program do something it would normally never do. It's an interesting technique but just one of many available in the arsenal of today's intruders. In the interest of feeding the media blitz about Internet security, this month's column features a walk through some of the more innovative and interesting security holes that we've come across in the past few years.

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