Researcher Finds Technique to Bypass Microsoft's EMET Protections

A security researchers has discovered a pair of methods that enable him to bypass the protections offered by Microsoft’s EMET anti-exploit technology. The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit, which Microsoft updated late last month to include one of the three technologies that were finalists i...

Vasillis Pappas Wins $200,000 Microsoft Blue Hat Prize

LAS VEGAS–Microsoft on Thursday handed out three rather large checks to a trio of security researchers, the largest one–$200,000–going to Vasillis Pappas who won the company’s first Blue Hat Prize competition for defensive technologies. Pappas’s kBouncer ROP mitigation technology edged out...