Ending the Love Affair with ExploitShield

Ending the Love Affair with ExploitShield

ExploitShield has been marketed as offering protection “against all known and unknown 0-day day vulnerability exploits, protecting users where traditional anti-virus and security products fail.” I found this assertion quite extraordinary and exciting! Vulnerabilities in software applications are real problems for computer users worldwide. So far, we have been pretty bad at providing actual technology to help individual users defend against vulnerabilities in software.In my opinion, Microsoft has made the best advances with their Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit. EMET changes the behavior of the operating system to increase the effort attackers

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  1. Chris Wysopal

    200.0 days ago

    RT @trailofbits: While you’re waiting out the storm/earthquake, check out our in-depth evaluation of ExploitShield: http://t.co/efbVRq4R

  2. Chris Eng

    200.0 days ago

    In which @no_structure thoroughly dismantles ExploitShield: http://t.co/Nx6BHcdf



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