Microsoft has released a new version of its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit, a free download that gives IT staffs the ability to better defend against exploit attempts.



From Threatpost:

"The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is a utility that helps prevent vulnerabilities in software from being successfully exploited. EMET achieves this by using security mitigation technologies. These technologies function as special protections and obstacles that an exploit author must defeat to exploit software vulnerabilities. These security mitigation technologies do not guarantee that vulnerabilities cannot be exploited. However, they work to make exploitation as difficult to perform as possible. In many instances, a fully-functional exploit that can bypass EMET may never be developed," Microsoft says in the documentation for the toolkit.

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