Microsoft Research Creates BrowserShield
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on September 5, 2006 at 1:15:42 PM
The research department at Microsoft has created a new program to shield the system frm malicious code. Interesting that Microsoft hasn't made this before to secure their entire OS. Either way, more security is good.
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Malicious hackers typically embed scripts on Web sites and then use social engineering techniques to trick unsuspecting visitors into downloading Trojans, bots, spyware programs and other harmful forms of malware. With BrowserShield, Wang argues, many such attacks could be blocked. BrowserShield can be used as a framework that rewrites HTML pages to deny any attempt at executing harmful code on browsers. "We basically intercept the Web page, inject our logic and transform the page that is eventually rendered on the browser," Wang said. "We're inserting our layer of code at run-time to make the Web page safe for the end user."