smart-app-control
2 posts tagged smart-app-control.
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Living Off the Land on Windows: The LOLBin Catalog and the Structural Ceiling Microsoft Cannot Break
How a 1996 Authenticode design choice produced the LOLBin class, why the LOLBAS catalog has 207 binaries and Microsoft only blocks ~40, and why that gap is permanent.
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Mark of the Web, SmartScreen, and the Catalog of Trust: How Windows Decides Whether to Warn You
How Windows stacks three trust layers -- origin, reputation, and signed catalog -- and why the 2022-2024 SmartScreen bypass arc was always a propagation bug, never a cryptography bug.