Office 2010 Opts in to DEP by Default
- Friday, February 5, 2010, 12:44
- Threat Research
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Microsoft Office 2010 will, by default, opt in to DEP (Data Execution Prevention), a feature of recent versions of Windows that helps to prevent vulnerability exploits, according to an entry in the Office Engineering Blog.DEP causes a program to halt when an attempt is made to execute code in an area of memory marked as data. This is a common technique for exploits, including many that have used malicious Office documents over the years. Few such vulnerabilities have been found in Office 2007 when using the new Office file formats, but Office 2007 still ...
