How Chipzilla and Microsoft hope to get one step ahead of hackers
10 Jun 2016 at 01:58, Chris Williams Intel is pushing a neat technique that could block malware infections on computers at the processor level.
That's the 40,000ft view of the new safety mechanism, the details of which were published on Thursday. What's really going on is this: Intel's so-called Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) [pdf] attempts to thwart exploit code that employs return-orientated programming (ROP) and jump-orientated programming (JOP).
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