A new paper from researchers at Verizon Business identifies a method through which an attacker can bypass Internet Explorer Protected Mode and gain elevated privileges once he’s successfully exploited ...

Researchers have found a chink in Internet Explorer’s ‘protected mode’ security armour that hints at trouble for other Windows apps built around the technology, including Google’s Chrome and Adobe’s ...

Internet Explorer 10 contains a new security feature called "enhanced protected mode" (EPM) that Windows 8 beta testers may soon encounter. EPM is a browser defense feature that follows in the ...

I came across a fascinating article on Windows Vista and the Internet Explorer "Protected Mode." It seems that, even with User Account Control (UAC) enabled, a low-integrity process like IE can manage ...

Microsoft has issued Security Advisory (980088) to address a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer that may allow information disclosure for Windows XP users or for users who have ...

Internet Explorer 10 contains a new security feature called "enhanced protected mode" (EPM) that Windows 8 beta testers may soon encounter. EPM is a security feature that follows in the tradition of ...

Windows Protected Mode is a feature of Internet Explorer that guards your computer from malicious software. Protected Mode was introduced with Windows Vista, and, as of the release of Windows 8, the ...

I am writing a program that is used for simplifying the download of an application installer. The app is really simple in it's working: it just asks the BITS subsystem to download a ZIP from the net ...