{"id":72914,"date":"2010-04-01T07:36:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T07:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=72914"},"modified":"2010-04-01T07:36:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T07:36:02","slug":"windows-7-most-praised-security-features-got-compromised-at-pwn2own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/windows-7-most-praised-security-features-got-compromised-at-pwn2own\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 most praised security features got compromised at Pwn2Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most talked about hacking contest Pwn2Own ended with bad news for Microsoft. The hackers were finally able to make their way and disable the Windows 7 data execution prevention (DEP) and address space layout randomization (ASLR). These two were the most highly praised security features of Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p>Security researchers Peter Vreugdenhil from Netherlands and Nils from Germany won the &#8220;Pwn2Own&#8221; hacking contest by hacking their ways around IE8&#8217;s security features.<\/p>\n<p>Not only Microsoft but other prominent browsers also got hacked as researchers easily exploited flaws in Firefox and Safari.<\/p>\n<p>This contest is of great help as it has been observed that vendors take these flaws seriously and come out with the patches for the same immediately.<\/p>\n<p>More detials of the contest can be <a href=\"https:\/\/cansecwest.com\/index.html\">found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most talked about hacking contest Pwn2Own ended with bad news for Microsoft. The hackers were finally able to make their way and disable the Windows 7 data execution prevention (DEP) and address space layout randomization (ASLR). These two were the most highly praised security features of Windows 7. Security researchers Peter Vreugdenhil from Netherlands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}