Anti-virus or Anti-malware is not dead; it is one of the defense mechanism in a defense-in-depth strategy. “Anti-virus is dead” is what you generally hear these days from the ‘over-the-top’ campaign makers. And what is the alternative, if so? There has never been a suitable response. Anti-virus or anti-malware products do their job quiet well, […]
Read More →A bit of a background on buffer overflow to begin with. Buffer overflow occurs when a program tries to write more data into buffer than it can actually hold. This makes it to overrun and write data in un-allocated memory location. If we carefully craft the data, we can control the flow of execution and […]
Read More →what is a buffer? In general, the term buffer is a temporary storage, a space in the memory used to store the data. Memory Organization: Stack: Contains arguments which are passed to the function and local variables. Heap: Contains the dynamically allocated memory (malloc()). Data: – Initialized data segment: Contains the global, static and constant data. […]
Read More →A new kind of botnet has been uncovered which takes innovative approach to find security vulnerabilities in the website using systems installed with illegitimate Mozilla Firefox add-on. An investigation by KrebsOnSecurity has revealed. The “Advanced Power” botnet has already infected more than 12,500 systems. It installs itself as a legitimate Mozilla Firefox add-on/extension and helped […]
Read More →It took us close to nine months to translate our idea into reality. We had debated the idea (for ANCOR, Saner and other products we plan to build) for over three months. Dropping some features, adding something in the last minute, debates, disagreement, agreement, sleepless nights, real-deep technology discussion, theoretical Computer Science discussion, this make […]
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