Microsoft extended the end of life deadline on EMET to July 2018, but experts say its usefulness as a mitigation toolkit has been limited for some time.

LAS VEGAS — It wasn’t long ago that ROP, or return-oriented programming, was a hacker’s best friend when it came to bypassing mitigations against memory-based attacks such as DEP and ASLR. ROP, however, is so 2005. In the last couple of years, researchers and attackers have figured out how to bypass popular tools such as...

New Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash exploits that bypass Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) have found their way into an updated version of the Angler Exploit Kit. EMET is a suite of freely available tools for Windows machines that mitigate memory-based attacks. The exploits, discovered by security firm FireEye, affect only Windows 7 machines–still used by...