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ASLR Joins Vista’s Bag Of Tricks
Friday, June 2nd, 2006
Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2 has been equipped with a security feature that should help protect
the system against buffer overrun exploits. The addition of Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR), which is known more for being used in the open-source world, is part of a larger strategy to make automated attacks on Vista more difficult to execute.
"We added ASLR pretty late in the game, but we decided that adding it to Beta 2 . . . was important so we can understand how well it performs in the field," said Michael Howard, senior security program manager at Microsoft. "Not only is it in Beta 2, it’s on by default too," he added. ASLR Joins Vista s Bag Of Tricks
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