Hackers use Microsoft security tool to pwn Microsoft security tool FireEye security wonks Abdulellah Alsaheel and Raghav Pande have twisted the barrels of Microsoft's lauded EMET Windows defense gun 180 degrees and fired. Or in other words, they've found a way to disable Redmond's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit using the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit. EMET injects anti- …
"But be honest; it's nothing like "lose" and "loose" is it?"
They are all near-homonyms - apparently with common etymology. Unlike confusing "aloud" and "allowed" - which is also a common mistake. One BBC radio programme's title "Thinking Allowed" could be considered a deliberate play on that.
That's a problem with English. If you don't get enough reading practice coupled with understanding the meaning - then you rely on the brain's spell checker producing a word that appears phonetically close.
Whilst checking the etymology of effect/affect I came across two others that cause confusion "afferent" or "efferent". Be thankful IT networks didn't adopt this pair to differentiate "downstream" and "upstream" (whichever is which?)
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/125455/are-effect-and-affect-related-to-efferent-and-afferent
Don't understand the down votes on that posting. Last night I received notification of the latest W7 updates on my two PCs. Six optional and only one "important" - which was the hoary chestnut KB3035583 to enable the W10 upgrade. That has been hidden many times on my PCs for about the last 9 months - and MS keep reviving it every few weeks.
Good for you! Now can you use your influence to politely suggest Microsoft to f.. sorry! to leave the rest of us alone with whatever version of Windows/Linux/Mac we may fancy ? Surely hundreds of millions should be more than enough for Microsoft to ignore the few of us who say thank you very much for your free offer, Microsoft, but no thanks.
So... the function that unloads EMET can be used to unload EMET? That's a discovery along the lines of when you shoot yourself in the foot, it hurts.
Isn't this simply using something to do what it's supposed to do to do something you don't want it to do. I can sell you a chainsaw, but if someone breaks into your house and saws off your leg with it, that's really not a problem with the chainsaw, per se, but one of access to the chainsaw.
Which sounds like it's already fixed, so really no particular annoyance. Although to be fair, I doubt it's ever going to get fixed on anything before Windows 10. I'm going to stop now because I'm really trying hard not to say "all your data are belong to us" here. Oh. Damn.
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