Microsoft Tears off the Band-Aid with EMET

Microsoft last week extended the end-of-life expiration date to July 2018 on its exploit mitigation add-on, the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET. But for some time, the once-useful tool has been well on its way out to pasture. While EMET was never meant to be anything more than stopgap...

Control Flow Guard Mitigation Bypass

Introduced in Windows 8.1 Update 3 and Windows 10, Control Flow Guard was Microsoft’s latest antidote to memory-corruption attacks. The technology was meant to stand up to attacks that had long ago figured out how to bypass previous-generation protections such as Address Space Layout Randomizatio...

EMET 5.2 is available (update)

Today, we’re releasing the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET 5.2, which includes increased security protections to improve your security posture. You can download EMET 5.2 from microsoft.com/emet or directly from here. Following is the list of the main changes and improvements: Control...