Microsoft added in a follow-up blog post that IE 8 users are protected by default from the attack by Data Execution Prevention, a safeguard designed to prevent content data from being misinterpreted by a program as executable commands.

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It is a risk which has prompted strict laws intended to safeguard sensitive data, both in the U.S. and elsewhere.

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What consumers should consider is whom they choose to allow as the keeper and trusted source to safeguard their data.

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Millions of users worldwide depend on the EAL 4 certified, enterprise-software standards-based GuardianEdge Data Protection Platform to safeguard confidential or proprietary information, to ensure compliance with regulations for maintaining consumer privacy and to enable secure enterprise mobility.

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Well, that really does not make much of a difference when you expose the entire database table and have way too much faith in the 34 year old encryption algorithm reported to be used to safeguard the data.

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To this end, governments, the private sector and other agencies must act from the outset to safeguard principles of informed consent, data confidentiality and security, according to the report.

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That missing safeguard matters: All Apple products use Data Execution Prevention, or DEP, a feature that prevents malicious code from running its own commands.

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