The SANS Institute maintains a list of the "Top 10 Software Vulnerabilities." At the current time, over half of these vulnerabilities are exploitable by Buffer Overflow attacks, making this class of attack one of the most common and most dangerous w
Through the use of a computerized geographic profiling system and two case studies, this chapter examines the applicability of geographic profiling in the context of terrorist attacks. The findings of this examination are somewhat mixed with a final
Almost any cryptographic scheme can be described by tweakable polynomials over GF(2), which contain both secret variables (e.g., key bits) and public variables (e.g., plaintext bits or IV bits). The cryptanalyst is allowed to tweak the polynomials b
Android Security: Attacks and Defenses is for anyone interested in learning about the strengths and weaknesses of the Android platform from a security perspective. Starting with an introduction to Android OS architecture and application programming,
