Microsoft is continually adding security mitigations to its Windows operating system, with Windows 7 being the company’s most secure platform to date. The variety of mitigations in the company’s OS are not designed as impassible barriers, since in fact, given sufficient time and resources, all can be byp... |
29 November 2010
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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
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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
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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
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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
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