From:
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-1002-0-7-7--.html
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This week at the Black Hat Security Conference two security researchers
will discuss their findings which could completely bring Windows Vista
to its knees.
Mark Dowd of IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) <
http://www.iss.net/>
and Alexander Sotirov, of VMware Inc. <
http://www.vmware.com/> have
discovered a technique that can be used to bypass all memory protection
safeguards that Microsoft built into Windows Vista. These new methods
have been used to get around Vista's Address Space Layout Randomization
(ASLR), Data Execution Prevention (DEP) and other protections by loading
malicious content through an active web browser. The researchers were
able to load whatever content they wanted into any location they wished
on a user's machine using a variety of scripting languages, such as
Java, ActiveX and even .NET objects. This feat was achieved by taking
advantage of the way that Internet Explorer (and other browsers) handle
active scripting in the Operating System.
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