While robust passwords help you secure your valuable online accounts, hardware-based two-factor authentication takes that security to the next level. Read now Academics have developed a new technique ...

Researchers from VUSec found a way to break ASLR via an MMU sidechannel attack that even works in JavaScript. Does this matter? Yes, it matters. A lot. The discovery of this security flaw along with ...

Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and subsequent Windows 10 variations fail to properly apply ASLR, rendering this crucial Windows security feature useless. Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is a ...

“Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is one of the most prominently deployed mitigations against memory corruption attacks. ASLR randomly shuffles program virtual addresses to prevent attackers ...

Much like recipes in a cookbook, the instructions to execute programs are stored in specific locations within a computer's physical memory. The standard security method—referred to as "address space ...

Microsoft is rationalizing that an apparent security flaw in the ASLR Windows protection scheme was placed there on purpose. The alleged flaw was described in a vulnerability note published this month ...

Researchers from VUSec found a way to break ASLR via an MMU sidechannel attack that even works in JavaScript. Does this matter? Yes, it matters. A lot. The discovery of this security flaw along with ...

The latest versions of Microsoft Windows are vulnerable to attacks due to a newly discovered vulnerability in Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR). The vulnerability affects Windows 8, Windows ...

Five researchers from the Vrije University in the Netherlands have put together an attack that can be carried out via JavaScript code and break ASLR protection on at least 22 processor ...

Microsoft has been telling users to upgrade to Windows 10 because of its superior in-built defenses against attacks, compared with Windows 7. That advice would be true if it properly implemented the ...