tcpulse is a specialized tool designed to generate load on network connections and analyze the performance characteristics of network traffic. It operates in two primary modes: Server mode ...

Sometimes a program crashes outside your control. Linux can generate a core dump —a snapshot of the program’s memory at the moment it crashed. Enable core dumps: ulimit -c unlimited After a crash, run ...

Runtime attacks on memory, such as buffer overflow based stack smashing and code reuse attacks, are common in embedded systems. Control flow integrity (CFI) has been acknowledged as one promising ...

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George recognized getting command-and-control right was imperative to future battlefield success and decided to embark on a program to fix the service’s C2 ...

Users can handle checked exceptions in Java by wrapping the code that throws the exception within a "try catch" block or by using the keyword "throw" to throw a checked exception up the call stack for ...

The chip industry is progressing rapidly toward 3D-ICs, but a simpler step has been shown to provide gains equivalent to a whole node advancement — extracting distributed memories and placing them on ...

Since so much existing code has been written in memory-unsafe languages like C/C++, another approach has been adding mitigations to help protect against certain types of attacks through software such ...

Matthew’s diverse background encompasses full-stack development (Java, JVM languages such as Kotlin, JavaScript, Python, .NET), front-end development (Angular, React, Vue, Svelte) and back-end ...

Kernel-mode Hardware-enforced Stack Protection is a security feature introduced in Windows 11 22H2 that protects systems from various memory attacks, such as stack buffer overflows.

Control Flow Guard (CFG) is Microsoft's implementation of control flow integrity in Visual Studio 2015. Control flow integrity (CFI) is an exploit mitigation like stack cookies, DEP, and ASLR. Like ...

The prevalence of memory corruption bugs in the past decades resulted in numerous defenses, such as stack canaries, control flow integrity (CFI), and memory-safe languages. These defenses can prevent ...