FireEye security wonks Abdulellah Alsaheel and Raghav Pande have twisted the barrels of Microsoft’s lauded EMET Windows defence gun 180 degrees and fired.
The result of their research is p0wnage of the enhanced mitigation toolkit so that instead of defending Windows it attacks it. The attacks the pair found effect older versions of Windows which rely on EMET for modern defences like address space layout randomisation and data execution prevention.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register