The one security tool every Windows user should know about | ZDNet

The one security tool every Windows user should know about | ZDNet: "The one security tool every Windows user should know about

By Ed Bott | January 10, 2011, 8:27am PST
Summary

Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is a simple but powerful configuration utility that allows you to harden applications that weren’t originally designed to take advantage of Windows security features.

A new zero-day security hole in all versions of Windows is the subject of “targeted attacks,” Microsoft says. The flaw, according to Microsoft Security Advisory 2488013, occurs when an attacker exploits “the creation of uninitialized memory during a CSS function within Internet Explorer.” The result? “It is possible under certain conditions for the memory to be leveraged by an attacker using a specially crafted Web page to gain remote code execution.”

Similar holes have been spotted in the past in applications such as Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, and Apple’s QuickTime.

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