Imagine you’re a chef with a highly sought-after recipe. You write your top-secret instructions in a journal to ensure you remember them, but its location within the book is evident from the folds and tears on the edges of that often-referenced page.Much like recipes in a cookbook, the instructions to execute programs are stored in specific locations within a computer’s physical memory. The standard security method — referred to as “address space layout randomization” (ASLR) — scatters this precious code to different places, but hackers can now find their new…
