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From Missingno to Heartbleed: Buffer Exploits and Buffer Overflows

Published April 9, 2014

Views 950K  |  Likes 26.5K  |  Comments 853
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Buffer exploits are one of the basic bugs of computer science. They're responsible for glitches in games, for all sorts of viruses and exploits, and any number of technical disasters. Here's the basics of how they work, and a non-technical breakdown of Heartbleed, this week's rather startling attack.

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April 9, 2014
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