If you want to make sure your computer or server is not tricked into undertaking malicious or undesirable behavior, it's not enough to keep bad code out of the system. New research shows that the ...

In this video from the SOURCE conference in Boston, security researcher Dino Dai Zovi discusses the details of return-oriented programming and the ways in which it can be used to exploit ...

If you want to make sure your computer or server is not tricked into undertaking malicious or undesirable behavior, it's not enough to keep bad code out of the system. Two graduate students from UC ...

Intel has come up with a chip-level plan to defeat attacks that use return-oriented programming to exploit memory vulnerabilities. The new measures are outlined in a preview specification from Intel ...

Several years ago, Microsoft released the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET), a free tool that can help Windows users beef up the security of third-party applications. This week, Microsoft ...

Microsoft released the technology preview of a new security toolkit that uses defenses inspired by one of the contestants of its BlueHat Prize security competition, the company said on Wednesday. The ...

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As Microsoft hardens its defenses with tools such as Control Flow Guard, researchers at Endgame are preparing for the reality of Counterfeit Object-Oriented Programming attacks to move from ...

One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a ...