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Security researchers have defeated vulnerability protections baked into the latest versions of Internet Explorer, demonstrating that it’s possible to poke holes in a safety net that’s widely relied on to keep end users safe from drive-by exploits.
By exploiting weaknesses in Adobe Systems’ Flash Player, researchers have devised two separate attacks that bypass mitigations Microsoft put [...] Read more »

Posted on February 20th, 2010 under Consumer Cyber Alert, Cyber Security, Exploits & Hacks, Security Alerts, Security News, Windows. Tags: Academic Exercise, Address Space, Adobe Systems, Aslr, Black Hat, Buffer Overflows, Data Execution Prevention, Dionysus, Internet Explorer, Last Bastion, Memory Location, Randomization, Reader Application, Right Position, Security, Security Conference, Security Researchers, Security Security, Space Layout, Time Compiler, Windows Pcs. Comments: None