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Jon Oberheide says latest Android will be "pretty hard" to exploit
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2012-07-17 00:31
In an analysis published Monday, security researcher Jon Oberheide said Android version 4.1, aka Jelly Bean, is the first version of the Google-developed OS to properly implement a protection known as address space layout randomization. ASLR, as it's more often referred to, randomizes the memory locations for the library, stack, heap, and most other OS data structures. As a result, hackers who exploit memory corruption bugs that inevitably crop up in complex pieces of code are unable to know in advance where their malicious payloads will be loaded.
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Android Jelly Bean source code released: Let the hacking commence
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2012-07-10 10:12
The code for the latest build of Android is now available, meaning anyone with the right knowhow can get modding right this very minute.
Gentleman, screwdrivers at the ready. Jean-Baptiste Queru, Google’s software engineer, made the announcement via Google Groups.
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