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 ...

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 ...

A group of security researchers has published a fascinating study that demonstrates how to hack a Sequoia AVC Advantage voting machine. We have already seen several electronic voting machines hacked ...

Secure software execution has become a critical concern as modern computing systems, ranging from embedded devices to enterprise platforms, face increasingly sophisticated adversaries. Recent studies ...

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 ...

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 ...

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