Control-Flow Enforcement Technology has been developed with Microsoft
Intel is baking some security into its CPUs that’s designed to thwart software exploits that execute malicious code on vulnerable computers.
Control-Flow Enforcement Technology, or CET, represents a fundamental change in the way processors execute instructions from applications such as Web browsers, email clients, or PDF readers.
Jointly developed by Intel and Microsoft, CET is designed to thwart a technique known as return-oriented programming (ROP), which hackers use to bypass anti-exploit measures software developers introduced about a decade ago. While Intel first published its implementation of CET in 2016, Tiger Lake CPU microarchitecture will be the first to include it.
For those not in the know, ROP was the hackers answer to protections such as Executable Space Protection and address space layout randomisation, which made their way into Windows, macOS, and Linux a little less than two decades ago.
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Intel bakes malware protection onto its CPU
16th June 2020, 15:18
Intel bakes malware protection onto its CPU 
