Eliana Jordan left office life, became a scuba instructor, and later taught herself to code to build something of her own.

A buffer overflow happens when a program writes more data into a memory buffer than the buffer can hold. The extra bytes land in adjacent memory, corrupting whatever was there. If an attacker controls ...

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