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Submission + - Windows XP added security. ASLR,SEH,FSVulnerabilit (codeplex.com)

iiiears writes: wehntrust.codeplex.com â" WehnTrust is a Host-based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) for Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003. It includes support for exploit mitigations that are designed to make exploitation more difficult by preventing the use of specific exploitation techniques and by making exploitation unreliable. ASLR,SEH,FSVulnerability Prevention. Source code Available
Privacy

Submission + - Forensics: "File System Spoofing." (forensicswiki.org)

iiiears writes: Currently, Casper may select fake root file system image on evidentiary media (e.g. HDD), because there are no authenticity checks performed (except optional UUID check for a possible live file system), and this fake root file system image may be used to execute malicious code during the boot with root privileges.
Security

Submission + - Hardware Threat BIOS Rootkit. "Mebromi" (webroot.com)

iiiears writes: Mebromi and contains a bit of everything: a BIOS rootkit specifically targeting Award BIOS, a MBR rootkit, a kernel mode rootkit, a PE file infector and a Trojan downloader. At this time, Mebromi is not designed to infect 64-bit operating system and it is not able to infect the system if run with limited privileges.
Security

Submission + - Malware Deniers (mrpogson.com)

iiiears writes: Ed Bott has been around a while. He did some useful work tracking down a report that 50% of PCs in the world were infected with malware.

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