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'Offensive security research community helping bad guys'
Adobe security chief Brad Arkin argues that benevolent security researchers who publish techniques to defeat security mitigations are doing a major disservice.
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The one security tool every Windows user should know about
Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is a simple but powerful configuration utility that allows you to harden applications that weren't originally designed to take advantage...
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Microsoft's anti-exploit toolkit can help mitigate PDF zero-day attacks
Microsoft is pushing its new Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) as a temporary mitigation for the ongoing attacks against a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe's PDF Reader/Acrobat products.
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Microsoft ships anti-exploit tool for IT admins
The tool, called Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) works by applying security mitigation technologies to arbitrary applications to block against exploitation through common attack vectors.
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Linux Foundation to host CloudOpen to mitigate open source cloud war
The Linux Foundation will host CloudOpen later this summer for backers and supporters of OpenStack, CloudStack and other open source cloud related projects. It will run parallel with LinuxCon NA...
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'Offensive security research community helping bad guys'
Adobe security chief Brad Arkin argues that benevolent security researchers who publish techniques to defeat security mitigations are doing a major disservice.
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Microsoft to hackers: Cash for exploit mitigation inventions
Microsoft unveils the Blue Hat Prize, a challenge to the security research community to help solve an open problem in exploit mitigation.
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How Japan can mitigate cell congestion amid state emergency
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IcedRobot launches Android fork to mitigate Oracle-Google war
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The one security tool every Windows user should know about
Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is a simple but powerful configuration utility that allows you to harden applications that weren't originally designed to take advantage...
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Microsoft's anti-exploit toolkit can help mitigate PDF zero-day attacks
Microsoft is pushing its new Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) as a temporary mitigation for the ongoing attacks against a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe's PDF Reader/Acrobat products.
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Microsoft ships anti-exploit tool for IT admins
The tool, called Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) works by applying security mitigation technologies to arbitrary applications to block against exploitation through common attack vectors.
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Report: 64% of all Microsoft vulnerabilities for 2009 mitigated by Least Privilege accounts
According to a newly released report, 64% of all the reported Microsoft vulnerabilities for 2009 could have been mitigated by using the principle of the least privileged accounts.
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Critical zero-day flaw found in Adobe Illustrator
Adobe's security response team is scrambling to deal with the release of exploit code for what appears to be a critical zero-day flaw in the Adobe Illustrator CS4 software product.
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Jericho Forum aims to guide enterprises through risk mitigation landscape for cloud adoption
Cloud computing could be looked at the ultimate form of de-perimeterization. You no longer know even where your data is.
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Report: 92% of critical Microsoft vulnerabilities mitigated by Least Privilege accounts
A recently released report by BeyondTrust entitled "Reducing the Threat from Microsoft Vulnerabilities" indicates that that according to the company's analysis of all the security bulletins...
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Mitigating the collision course of social networks
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