A buffer overflow happens when a program writes more data into a memory buffer than the buffer can hold. The extra bytes land in adjacent memory, corrupting whatever was there. If an attacker controls ...

Abstract: Return-oriented programming (ROP) attacks pose a significant threat to the control-flow integrity (CFI) of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, which operate in resource-constrained ...

Every few months, someone announces a new AI model trained on more data than the last one, and the AI community collectively nods like we’ve solved something. More tokens, more parameters, and ...

Understanding the time complexity of recursive functions can feel like solving a puzzle. But don’t worry – by the end of this article, you’ll know how to break down any recursive function and ...

Last month, I wrote about a pretty shaky topic in the software world - CISA and FBI's stance against C/C++ in their Product Security Bad Practices guidance. In that article, "CISA's Stand Against ...

A technology enthusiast, Bobby studied Computer Science at the University of Southampton before working in a number of roles across industries, from the private sector to the charitable one, at ...

Imagine you are at a crossroads in a complex project and you need quick answers on how to grapple with a problem. It is quite likely that you might turn to an online knowledge community for answers, ...

Embedded developers often bemoan the fact that no programming language is ideal for their particular needs. In a way, this situation is unsurprising, because, although a great many developers are ...

This repository provides the tool and the evaluation subjects for the paper "MemLock: Memory Usage Guided Fuzzing" accepted for the technical track at ICSE'2020. A pre-print of the paper can be found ...