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Most of the notorious security breaches in practice (Stuxnet, NSA, IoT mega-botnets…) had nothing to do with buffer overflows.
by varjag 7y ago
Most of the notorious security breaches in practice (Stuxnet, NSA, IoT mega-botnets…) had nothing to do with buffer overflows.
- pjmlp 7y agoA few stars don't hide the impact of billions of dollars in fixing buffer overflows and their related exploits. > 70% of the vulnerabilities Microsoft assigns a CVE each year continue to be memory safety issues https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/18/we-need-a-safer-systems-programming-language/ https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/18/we-need-a-safer-s... If you are going to argue that is 'cause Windows, there are similar reports from Google regarding Linux.