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Hacker Breaks Into Windows 7 Using IE 8 in 2 Minutes

Yesterday, two researchers at the Pwn2Own hacking contest walked away with a nice sum of $10,000 each after they managed to bypass important security features in Windows 7. Both Peter Vreugdenhil of the Netherlands and a German researcher who only would give his first name of Nils, managed to find ways to disable DEP (data execution prevention) and ASLR (address space layout randomization) in Windows 7. Two features that have been well publicized in Windows 7’s anti-exploit features.

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Hacker Breaks Into Windows 7 Using IE 8 in 2 Minutes

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