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EMET 5.1 fixes incompatibilities detected between certain mitigations and popular software program
owala sCredit: Thinkstock Microsoftrsquo Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET , a security program popular with companies, was updated Monday to harden the exploit mitigations that it adds to other programs and to address compatibility issues with some of them.The compatibility issues affected popular applications including Internet Explorer, Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, and Mozilla Firefox when EMET mitigations like Export Address Table Filte
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Computer World ndash; The number of chief executives who left their posts rose last month, particularly at dot-com companies, many of which are shuffling their top ranks to appease impatient investors and venture capitalists, said analysts. Last week, a report from Challenger, Gray and Chr
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polene sac , Texas-based recruiting firm Primus Associates LC. Gassett said many dot-coms have changed their business plans in the past few months to target the most profitable pieces of their markets, but their founders may be too technical and not have enoug
