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A software risk management consultancy by the name of Cigital claims the protection mechanism in Microsoft's Visual C++.NET compiler is vulnerable to attack.
The mechanism is called /GS and is there to handle buffer overflows, the cause of a lot of Microsoft's security woes.
Cigital warns against using it. It claims...
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