Last year Apple upped its game another notch, randomizing the location of code in memory so that hackers can't even locate commands to hijack them.
Currently Enterprise systems ship with Error Correcting Code (ECC) memory, but most consumer systems do not.
As part of its Digital Service Efficiency effort to reduce power consumption in its data centers, eBay slightly changed some of its software code so that the code would require less memory.
Techniques such as extracting operating parameters, comparing application profiles across VMs (to look for signs that one has been successfully attacked), and analyzing application behavior in memory (as opposed to just code stored on disk) are far easier in a virtual environment and provide a huge advantage for stopping the most sophisticated threats.
Hi-tech criminals have long known that they can exploit IE's memory management to inject their own malicious code into the stream of instructions a computer processes as a browser is being used.
He planned to work during the four-hour ride from Boston but forgot his USB memory stick, leaving him with a laptop and no code to mess with.
When your computer boots up, it spends an interminable amount of time heaving some 30 million lines of operating code from the hard drive onto its main memory, DRAM (dynamic random access memory).
The vulnerability exists when MSXML attempts to access an object in memory that has not been initialized, which may corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the logged-on user.
For example, once the code-morphing software has translated a particular chunk of x86 code into micro-ops it can store the translated chunk in a special memory to avoid having to translate it again.
Where Twitter does use Ruby, it deploys the code on a custom, highly optimized version of the Ruby runtime designed to manage memory more efficiently when executing long-running processes.
Description: An out-of-bounds memory read issue in Safari 3 Public Beta for Windows may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution when visiting a malicious website.
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