Intel to incorporate EDB security in various CPUs

"Intel plans to incorporate its Execute Disable Bit (EDB) security technology in several lines of CPU, including the 600-series 64-bit Pentium 4 lineup, Pentium M and 775-socket Celeron D models, in 2005, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers.

EDB technology is able to prevent certain classes of malicious "buffer overflow" attacks when combined with the Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) operating system, the sources added."
And that is pretty much the extent of that news posting. Can I hear a collective "Yay!"??

I didn't think it was that exciting either.

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