New Long-Range Wi-Fi Standard Offers Double Range to Home Devices

It is a common problem: Home Wireless Router's reach is terrible that the WiFi network even does not extend past the front door of the room. My house also has all kinds of Wi-Fi dead zones, but can we fix it? The answer is: YES. The problem will improve with a future, longer range version of Wi-F...

Long range RFID hacking tool to be released at Black Hat

Out of necessity come many interesting inventions. Fran Brown, a year ago, was working a penetration test for an electric utility doing an assessment of its SCADA network. His first challenge was to get inside the facility, meaning, in short that he had to break in. To do so, he decided to test t...

ghostscript: stack-based buffer overflow in .seticcspace operator

Stack-based buffer overflow in the zseticcspace function in zicc.c in Ghostscript 8.61 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a postscript .ps file containing a long Range array in a .seticcspace operator...

PT-2008-2043 · Artifex +1 · Ghostscript +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Ghostscript versions 8.61 and earlier Description: The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a postscript .ps file containing a long Range array in a .seticcspace operator. This is due to a stack-based buffer overflow in...