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Stack Buffer Overflow Protection In HP-UX 11i White Paper
White Papers This white paper describes HP-UX 11i stack buffer overflow protection capabilities and how they can significantly improve the security of HP-UX 11i systems without sacrificing system performance.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Transmeta Adds Buffer-overflow Protection At Chip Level
News The "No Execute", or NX, technology is designed to help prevent a buffer overflow, a type of attack that involves overwhelming a computer's defence systems and inserting a malicious program in buffer, or temporary, memory.
[May 18, 2004, 9:00]
Stack Buffer Overflow Protection In HP-UX 11i
White Papers This white paper describes HP-UX 11i stack buffer overflow protection capabilities and how they can significantly improve the security of HP-UX 11i systems without sacrificing system performance. HP-UX 11i includes stack buffer overflow protection...
[May 5, 2004, 1:03]
Defeating The Stack Based Buffer Overflow Prevention Mechanism Of Microsoft Windows 2003 Server
White Papers This paper presents several methods of bypassing the protection mechanism built into Microsoft's Windows 2003 Server that attempts to prevent the exploitation of stack based buffer overflows. Recommendations about how to thwart these attacks are...
[October 4, 2003, 4:53]
BorderWare Firewall Server: Roadmap For BorderWare Firewall Server V6.5, BWClient And The IPSec VPN Option
White Papers In V6.5 an additional level of buffer overflow protection has been added. This means that if in the future buffer and stack overflow vulnerabilities are discovered in any of the application servers or other modules used by the Firewall, then...
[November 27, 2003, 4:30]
OpenBSD 3.9 Released
News The OpenBSD project on Monday released version 3.9 of its open source operating system, which offers improvements including a new sensor framework and better buffer overflow protection. The OS has also introduced fully enabled randomised memory...
[May 3, 2006, 11:20]
Chips To Fight Viruses
News Execution Protection by AMD, technology contained in AMD's Athlon 64 chips, prevents a buffer overflow, which is a common method used to attack computers. A buffer overflow essentially overwhelms a computer's defence systems and then inserts a...
[January 9, 2004, 7:45]
Microsoft Puts The Finishing Touches On SP2
News He explained that Microsoft faces a dilemma over buffer overflow protection. Microsoft initially turned on buffer overflow protection in SP2, but this caused problems in certain applications, so they turned it off again.leaving users to decide when...
[July 2, 2004, 12:00]
OpenBSD Releases Version 3.3
News The OpenBSD project leader, Theo de Raadt, announced the planned inclusion of the stack protection technology aimed at mitigating buffer overflow vulnerabilities -- the most ubiquitous type of security glitch -- at the RSA security conference in...
[May 1, 2003, 11:25]
Most UK Companies 'still Vulnerable' To Blended Attacks
News Earlier this month, Microsoft announced it has enhanced the memory protection in Windows XP in order to reduce the operating system's vulnerability to buffer overflow exploits, but the enhancement will only be available as part of Service Pack 2...
[October 29, 2003, 15:45]
AMD Claims To Deliver On SP2
News Together, the two features are designed to close off a common method of attack called a buffer overflow. A buffer overflow attack essentially overwhelms a computer's defence systems and then inserts a malicious program into memory, allowing the...
[August 10, 2004, 8:55]
IMsecure
Downloads IMsecure offers basic inbound threat protection from buffer overflow attacks as well as message encryption for one instant messaging account to protect instant messages from being monitored. IMsecure keeps instant message conversations private and...
[October 13, 2004, 3:46]
IMsecure Pro
Downloads IMsecure offers basic inbound threat protection from buffer overflow attacks as well as message encryption for one instant messaging account to protect instant messages from being monitored. IMsecure keeps instant message conversations private and...
[October 13, 2004, 3:46]
OpenBSD 3.9 Adds Sensor Framework
News This feature ensures that when a program runs it does not always allocate memory in the same place, and therefore offers protection against buffer-overflow attacks. Open BSD 3.9 will include a new sensor framework to allow system administrators to...
[March 24, 2006, 8:30]
Blended Attacks Exploits, Vulnerabilities, And Buffer-Overflow Techniques In Computer Viruses
White Papers Exploits, vulnerabilities, and buffer-overflow techniques have been used by malicious hackers and virus writers for a long time. The CodeRed worm was a major shock to the antivirus industry since it was the first worm that spread not as a file, but...
[August 15, 2003, 6:55]
Understanding Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
White Papers It discusses the details of buffer overflow prevention, network protection, and patching technologies in Windows XP SP2, and the deployment mechanisms to control each. The changes to Microsoft Windows Firewall, Automatic Updates, and the Windows...
[September 10, 2004, 0:00]
Cisco Security Agent Helps Columbus State University Combat Evolving Security Attacks
White Papers The security breach was an exploit of an extended procedure function buffer overflow of Microsoft SQL 7 and compromised three of CSU's critical servers. CSU implemented Cisco Security Agent Solution, which provides threat protection for server and...
[March 1, 2005, 23:00]
Providing Adaptive QoS To Layered Video Over Wireless Local Area Networks Through Real-Time Retry Limit Adaptation
White Papers The design of the method is motivated by the observation that the retry limit settings of the MAC layer can be optimized in such a way that the overall packet losses that are caused by either link erasure or buffer overflow are minimized.
[November 3, 2006, 8:02]
Trend Micro ServerProtect 1.1 Linux Edition: Protecting Files Where They Reside
White Papers Such viruses use the User Data Protocol (UDP) to execute the attack, and take advantage of buffer overflow vulnerability in OpenSSL 0.9.6d, 0.9.7-beta2 and earlier versions. Without virus protection at the server level, Windows viruses can quickly...
[May 18, 2007, 1:00]
Microsoft Accelerates Windows Security Update
News Security is now the number one priority for Microsoft and that will be demonstrated with SP2, he said, revealing that the update will contain enhanced memory protection in an attempt to reduce the operating system's vulnerability to buffer...
[October 15, 2003, 13:35]
