Posted on 07/19/2016 5:53:01 PM PDT by Utilizer
Bad implementation of the low-level code hooking technique by Microsoft and third-party security vendors has left millions of users open to attacks that bypass mitigation measures - some for up to a decade, researchers have found.
Hooking is used by different kinds of software to monitor as well as to intercept and change the behaviour of operating system functions, and if needed, to inject code.
Security software uses code hooking extensively to check for malicious activity on systems.
EnSilo researchers Tomer Bitton and Udi Yavo said they looked at the hooking engines and injection techniques used by more than 15 different products such as popular antivirus software from AVG, Kaspersky, McAfee, Symantec, and Bitdefender; data leak protection; anti-exploitation; and host intrusion protection systems.
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Ping!
I know there’s a hooker joke in their somewhere.
oh its not ping... it sould sound like Pling pling... yeah I am using windows 10 and a Lumia phone and its sound PLING...PLING....PLING to me ....
Need to change my grears
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