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The new version of Apple's Mac OS X, Lion, brings important security enhancements including a full ASLR implementation, sandboxing and privilege separation.Security experts agree that it will be much harder to exploit vulnerabilities in Mac OS X Lion than on Snow Leopard or previous versions of the operating sys... |
21 July 2011
13:03 GMT |
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Apple has released iOS 4.3 addressing a high number of security flaws but also implementing Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR), a technology that makes vulnerability exploitation harder.The update fixes sixty vulnerabilities located in different components of the mobile operating system, including the WebKit l... |
10 March 2011
05:57 GMT |
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DEP/NX, ASLR, SafeSEH and Enhanced GS are some of the technologies that Microsoft is leveraging to bulletproof Internet Explorer 9. I said just some of the technologies, because these acronyms are designed to refer to IE9 memory protection mitigations, and do not represent anywhere near the entire efforts that went ... |
8 March 2011
08:35 GMT |
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At a conference scheduled for next week, security consultant and application developer, Stefan Esser, plans to unveil a new jailbreak process for iOS-based devices that automatically secures them with ASLR, or address space layout randomization.For now, jailbreaking iPhones, iPod touches and iPads impacts a security ... |
15 December 2010
08:50 GMT |
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According to research from vulnerability management company Secunia, a lot of popular applications fail to make use of the defenses implemented in Windows. Applications like Java, Adobe Reader, Mozilla Firefox have broken, incomplete or missing DEP and ASLR support. DEP (Data Execution Prevention) is a security ... |
2 July 2010
06:08 GMT |
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White hackers has built reliable exploits of two of the core security mitigations included in the most recent releases of Windows, including Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Security researchers have put together attacks against Windows security measures and managed to circumvent the added protection delivered by Data E... |
4 February 2010
10:09 GMT |
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In computing, Address Space Layout Randomization, or ASLR, is a function that randomly assigns data to the memory to make it more difficult for hackers to locate the critical operating system functions. Charlie Miller of Baltimore-based Independent Security Evaluators and hacker-extraordinaire claims to have found di... |
18 September 2009
10:57 GMT |
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A notorious Mac white hacker has put the latest iterations of client operating systems from both Apple and Microsoft in the balance and, after weighing, found the most recent cat from Cupertino inferior in terms of security compared to the rival from Redmond. Charlie Miller, of Baltimore-based Independent Security Ev... |
17 September 2009
03:53 GMT |
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The gold version of Internet Explorer 8 was bulletproofed against techniques designed to attack Internet Explorer 7 by leveraging inconsistencies in Windows Vista's memory protection mechanisms. Vista brought to the table a number of mitigations, additional security layers including Data Execution Prevention (DE... |
25 March 2009
08:07 GMT |
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While Microsoft, Mozilla and Google are laboring to finalize Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.1 and respectively Chrome 2.0, Opera is cooking Opera 10.0, the next iteration of its proprietary browser. But at the same time, the Norway-based security company is delivering updates for its current release of Opera, namely ... |
3 March 2009
09:17 GMT |
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In a new move designed to add anti-hacking features to its solutions, Apple is contradicting the general perspective that its products offer security by default, in contrast with Microsoft's software. The Cupertino-based hardware company is working to bulletproof its own software against hacking attempts and, in... |
8 April 2008
05:57 GMT |
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Windows Vista is no stranger to security scrutiny. In this respect, Symantec welcomed the operating system even from 2006 with a series of white papers detailing its analysis on the operating system. The new Windows Vista network stack, user-mode security defenses, kernel-mode security technologies, and the Teredo pr... |
6 March 2007
07:21 GMT |
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