Security for Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET

Guarding Against Attacks in the Real World

The rapid advancement and spread of information technology give rise to new types of threats. For example, the advancement and spread of Web and e-mail technologies expose anyone using these technologies to the threat of worms or macro viruses such as the highly publicized Melissa, I Love You, Code Red, Nimda, and most recently SQLSlammer viruses, to name a few. Ironically, the technology providing so many great benefits—such as the ability to send e-mails with rich HTML content to anyone in the world—is the same technology responsible for the worldwide spread of viruses and shutting down of corporate networks for days at a time. In many cases, flaws in the technology, such as buffer overrun vulnerabilities, ...