Study of Buffer Overflows and Keyloggers in the Linux Operating System – PDF Document

Hello readers,

I found this very interesting paper by Patrick Carroll, Computer Science Deptt at University Of Maryland, Baltimore.

This document is a short and nice intro to Keyloggers and Buffer Overflows under Linux Machines.

This doucment is just a 7-8  page long description of these two attack vectors out of which Keylogging is mostly practised by Script kiddies, whereas Buffer Overflows are a more advanced and sophisticated form of attack. Hope you’ll enjoy reading the document as much as i did.

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Originally, the article can be found here:

http://patrickomatic.com/school/426/project/final_report.pdf