NX: How Well Does It Say NO to Attacker’s eXecution Attempts?
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NX. It’s known by different names to different people. AMD calls it Enhanced Virus Protection, or EVP. Microsoft calls its support Data Execution Prevention, or DEP. After the press about how this new technology will stop hackers and worms in their tracks, many people call it a modern marvel. But this new technology has several layers of confusion surrounding it in regards to where it is implemented, how it protects and even when its on. This talk will unwrap the information while showing that at best NX is a speed bump and not a stop sign to malicious intruders.