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Former BlueHat Prize winner pwns Microsoft, researcher bypasses all EMET protections

At BSides security conference in San Francisco, Bromium Labs’ security researcher Jared DeMott showed attack code capable of bypassing “all of the protections” in Microsoft’s free Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 4.1.
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Microsoft BlueHat Prize Winners

At Microsoft’s Black Hat USA Researcher Appreciation Party, the company announced the winners of its BlueHat Prize. The party was packed with about 900 invited guests. On stage were a DJ and two women dancing to pounding techno beats inside the Marquee Nightclub at The Cosmopolitan. Read more

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Black Hat: Microsoft incorporates BlueHat Prize finalist defensive tech & releases EMET 3.5 Preview

Las Vegas – It has only been a few months since the close of the BlueHat Prize entry period and today Microsoft announced that it has already incorporated one of the BlueHat Prize finalist’s defensive technologies. It’s designed to mitigate attacks that leverage Return Oriented Programming (ROP), into its latest Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 3.5 Technology Preview. Read more

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