Researchers from VUSec found a way to break ASLR via an MMU sidechannel attack that even works in JavaScript. Does this matter? Yes, it matters. A lot. The discovery of this security flaw along with ...

Researchers have identified a weakness in one of Android’s security features. The research identifies an Android performance feature that weakens a software protection called Address Space Layout ...

I recently highlighted a study which showed that most of the top third-party software applications failed to take advantage of two major lines of defense built into Microsoft Windows that can help ...

Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and subsequent Windows 10 variations fail to properly apply ASLR, rendering this crucial Windows security feature useless. Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is a ...

Researchers have devised a new attack that can bypass one of the main exploit mitigations in browsers: Address space layout randomization (ASLR). The attack takes advantage of how modern processors ...

The latest version of Google's mobile operating system, Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), significantly beefs up the platform's security. Jelly Bean includes several new exploit mitigations as well as full ...

When I first saw the release notes for the new Android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) platform, I was excited to see that Google mentioned that “Android 4.0 now provides address space layout randomization”.

Microsoft provided an explanation this month for an apparent security flaw in Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR), a Windows protection scheme. The alleged flaw was described in a vulnerability ...

US-CERT is warning of a vulnerability in Microsoft’s implementation of Address Space Layout Randomization that affects Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team ...

A weakness has been found in the Haswell central processing unit (CPU) components that makes common computer operating systems vulnerable to malicious attacks. Computer hackers could take control of ...