This video explains the role of stack canaries in protecting against buffer overflow attacks. Stack canaries are randomly chosen numbers that sit between buffers and return addresses in functions. The

Buffer overflows are security vulnerabilities that occur when more data is written to an array than its capacity, often corrupting important data. Runtime bounds checking can prevent buffer overflows,

Mark sweep garbage collection is a simple and straightforward method of garbage collection that involves marking live objects and sweeping up unmarked objects.