Security researchers at Bromium have poked holes in the armor of Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit. In a new whitepaper, the firm lays out how to bypass the toolkit’s memory protections. In particular, it includes protections (for 32bit processes only) against return-oriented programming. “ROP based exploitation has been rampant in malware to bypass the ALSR+DEP […]
Security researchers from Bromium have been analyzing Microsofts Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET), a free tool thats designed to help Windows users enhance the security of third-party software. Experts say that EMET is vulnerable to custom-built exploits that attackers can use to bypass the protections offered in the tool. EMET is a viable personal and […]
Hewlett-Packard’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) is putting up $645,000 in cash prizes for researchers involved in this year’s Pwn2Own contest, including $150,000 for anyone who can circumvent the protections of Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET). The annual contest, which will take place at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, awards white hat hackers who are […]
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