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Mobile Phone Security: All You Need to Know
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Mitigating Buffer Overflow Attacks in Linux/Unix
A buffer overflow is the most common and the most serious threat to Linux/Unix operating systems. Buffer overflows occur when code running in unprotected memory in a buffer overwrites memory in an adjacent location. For example, a string of information, say 20 bytes, is sent to a 16-byte buffer, which can’t accommodate that string. Linux/Unix is written in C and there are memory-safety issues to consider, it could occur as a result of programming errors if memory boundary checking is inefficient or if boundary checking in a process isn’t present.
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Going to school on open-source security [Ed: That's just promoting Microsoft by-proxy FUD against FOSS]
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