When a user attempts to run a file with elevated privilege, Windows will show a User Account Control elevation prompt that asks whether the user trusts the file to run. For a regular file, the user will see a prompt like this: For a file signed by a certificate in the Untrusted Certificates store, elevationContinue reading “Authenticode and UAC”
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Sandboxing vs. Elevated Browsing (As Administrator)
The Web Browser is the most security-critical application on most users’ systems– it accepts untrusted input from servers anywhere in the world, parses that input using dozens to hundreds of parsers, and renders the result locally as fast as it can. For performance reasons, almost all code in almost all browsers is written in memory-unsafeContinue reading “Sandboxing vs. Elevated Browsing (As Administrator)”