Stack-Based Buffer Overflows
Harold F. Tipton, Micki Krause · 2007
In the past 25 years of computing, no computer-related subject has received nearly as much focus or media attention as did the Year 2000 Bug (Y2K). Unfortunately for the technology industry, the vast majority of this attention was highly caustic and critical, although some of it was well deserved. Around the world, large and small companies alike were preparing for the rollover to a new millennium, an event that some had predicted would pass largely unnoticed while others feared it would open up a Pandora’s box, bringing with it historic tales of unimaginable catastrophe.