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Microsoft released this week an upgrade to a tool that helps secure applications for the Internet without having to recode them.
Microsoft upgrades free app tools
- Mandatory address space layout randomization
- An export address table capability in which hardware breakpoints are used to filter access to the EAT of kernel32.dll and ntdll.dll
- NULL page allocation, to block attackers from taking advantages of NULL references in user mode
- Heap Spray Allocation, to pre-allocate memory addresses to block common attacks that fill a process's heap with specially craft
Toshiba Satellite laptops
- The laptops were sold in stores and through online retailers, including Toshiba's Web site, from August 2009 through August 2010 for between US 600 and US 800.
- The hazard affects about 41,000 laptops worldwide. Toshiba has received 129 reports of either overheating or of plastic casing melting around the AC adapter plug, the CPSC and HC said. The reports included minor burn injuries.
