Microsoft adds Enhanced Memory Protections in IE10

Microsoft adds Enhanced Memory Protections in IE10 Internet Explorer 10, the next version of the popular browser from Microsoft will incorporate new protections in terms of memory management. French security firm VUPEN has managed to hack Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 on a fully patched Windows...

Stephen Fewer won Pwn2Own !

Stephen Fewer won Pwn2Own ! The annual Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest conference kicked off Wednesday and one of the winners this year was Stephen Fewer, who exploited Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7. Dennis Fisher spoke with him about the contest, the challenge of attacking IE 8 and the...

Pwn2Own Winner Stephen Fewer

The annual Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest conference kicked off Wednesday and one of the winners this year was Stephen Fewer, who exploited Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7. Dennis Fisher spoke with him about the contest, the challenge of attacking IE 8 and the utility of memory protections...

Internet Explorer CSS Tags Memory Corruption

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MS10-090 Microsoft Internet Explorer CSS SetUserClip Memory Corruption

This module exploits a memory corruption vulnerability within Microsoft's HTML engine mshtml. When parsing an HTML page containing a specially crafted CSS tag, memory corruption occurs that can lead arbitrary code execution. It seems like Microsoft code inadvertently increments a vtable pointer t...

Flaw in Core IE 8 Component Could Enable Remote Attacks

There’s an unpatched vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer 8 running on most current versions of Windows that could give attackers the ability to run code on remote machines. The flaw is a memory leak that gives attackers key information on the location of a specific address in memory, even...

Anatomy of the New Adobe Flash Exploit

The exploit that is being used in the attacks against the latest zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash is a modified version of a harmless SWF file that is only one byte different from the original file. Researchers have seen the exploit being used in active attacks against the vulnerability in...

Researchers Finding New Ways to Bypass Exploit Mitigations

VANCOUVER–Software makers, led by Microsoft, have spent the last few years steadily adding new memory-protection and exploit-mitigation technologies such as ASLR, DEP and SafeSEH to their products. But the state of the art in exploitation has advanced just as steadily and, as researchers showed a...

As Memory Protections Advance, Exploits Stay a Step Ahead

SAN FRANCISCO–Despite years of efforts by software security teams at major vendors to harden the operating systems and browsers that are the most common targets of attackers, exploitation of new as well as older vulnerabilities is still simpler than many people might think. Microsoft, Mozilla,...

Q&A: Dino Dai Zovi

Dino Dai Zovi has gained a reputation as one of the top Apple security researchers in the industry and is the author of a new book on Apple security, “The Mac Hacker’s Handbook.” In this interview, he talks about the state of Apple security, why the company hasn’t implemented better memory...

IE8 security stops memory bypass attacks

When Mark Dowd and Alex Sotirov demonstrated a technique for bypassing Vista’s memory protections at Black Hat last year, the security community was stunned. Microsoft officials said at the time they were working on ways to defeat the pair’s attack and now that protection has arrived, in the form...