Spiraling network line rates, presently hitting up to 10 Gbit/second, are approaching the performance limits of the packet buffers in today's datacom line cards. For its part, buffer-memory ...

Why it matters: Every year, the Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute releases a list for the most common weakness enumeration in software, which lead to the most abused ...

This excerpt is from Chapter 7, Buffer Overflow of Exploiting Software: How to Break Code written by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw, and published by Addison-Wesley ...

In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...