“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 ...

ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) is a memory exploitation mitigation technique used on both Linux and Windows systems. Learn how to tell if it's running, enable/disable it, and get a view of ...

Yang Yu’s submission to the Microsoft bug bounty program completely elude ASLR and DEP mitigations built into Windows, earning him $100,000. Yang Yu is no stranger to writing mitigation bypasses for ...

An academic paper demonstrates a new ASLR bypass executed through a side-channel attack against the branch target buffer in an Intel Haswell CPU. Address Space Layout Randomization was a champion ...

After last week’s pwn2own and pwnium contests, browser security is, once more, a hot topic. The existence of flaws in browsers is nowadays taken for granted: what security researchers are most ...

Most popular consumer applications today use Microsoft's Data Execution Prevention (DEP) attack mitigation feature in Windows, while about one-third use its Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) ...

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 ...

Carnegie Mellon's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) is warning that video drivers from AMD fail to support a key Windows anti-exploitation mitigation offered by Microsoft. The AMD video drivers ...