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‘Memsad’ software rot threatens to leak your digital secrets

The Parallax

At the Chaos Communication Congress in December , and then again on March 19 here at the CanSecWest conference, van Sprundel named a particular case of code rot—one that essentially enables hackers to pluck mission-critical digital secrets directly from the software—memsad, a pun on the “memset” function to clear memory.

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Pwned Android, Chromium devices drive winnings at Tokyo hacker contest

The Parallax

Memsad’ software rot threatens to leak your digital secrets. Google’s understanding of the code base is not being applied elsewhere.”. READ MORE ON ZERO-DAY VULNERABILITIES. SafeBreach discloses vulnerabilities in Avast, AVG, Avira. After Russia warning, hole found in leading industrial-control software.