Redirecting execution flow is a common malware technique that can be used to compromise operating systems. To protect from such attacks, the chip makers of leading architectures like x86 and arm64 ...

Once upon a time, a simple stack overflow was enough to mount a code-injection attack on a running system. In modern systems, though, stacks are not executable and, as a result, simple overflow-based ...

Google's new Pixel 3 handset is the first Android device to feature a new kernel code protection system, the company said today. Named Control Flow Integrity (CFI), this technique works by preventing ...