03-14-2017 , 07:50 AM
http://portableapps.com/news/2017-03-13-...4-released PortableApps.com Platform 14.4: Fine Dining With Confidence
John T. Haller's picture Submitted by John T. Haller on March 13, 2017 - 10:16pm
PortableApps.com is proud to announce the PortableApps.com Platform 14.4 release. This release adds custom platform security to scan for and mitigate DLL hijacks in some vulnerable apps and launchers revealed in the "Fine Dining" leak as well as updates to two locales. As always it has a complete app store, automatic updater, easy app organization, fast app searching, proxy support, a great set of themes, portable fonts, and lots of other features to make it your favorite set of apps whether you're running from a portable drive, a cloud drive, or run locally! If you'd like to see more features and functionality keep coming, please read a personal appeal from PortableApps.com founder John T. Haller to help! You can also buy the platform and a suite of apps on the hardware-encrypted PortableApps.com Carbide or fast and affordable PortableApps.com Companion available in our hardware store. Read on for all the details...(permalink)
Existing Platform users can automatically update by clicking Help - Check for Updates.
New in 14.4
This release adds custom platform security to scan for and mitigate DLL hijacks in: 2048, BabelPad, ClamWin, Foxit, Google Chrome, Kaspersky TDSSKiller, LibreOffice, McAfee Stinger, Opera, Opera Mail, Skype, Thunderbird, and various launchers. These apps have been shown to load certain DLLs unsafely in the recent "Fine Dining" section of the Vault 7 leak and the platform now scans for both DLLs which should not be included as well as DLLs which can be replaced. The platform verifies the authenticity of the latter using secure SHA256 hashing. While these techniques are not currently known to spread malware via personal removable drives or cloud drives, now that these techniques have been publicized it could occur in the future, so we have added security mitigation now. We've posted a full story on the leak and our mitigation techniques. The Swedish and Traditional Chinese locales have also been updated.
John T. Haller's picture Submitted by John T. Haller on March 13, 2017 - 10:16pm
PortableApps.com is proud to announce the PortableApps.com Platform 14.4 release. This release adds custom platform security to scan for and mitigate DLL hijacks in some vulnerable apps and launchers revealed in the "Fine Dining" leak as well as updates to two locales. As always it has a complete app store, automatic updater, easy app organization, fast app searching, proxy support, a great set of themes, portable fonts, and lots of other features to make it your favorite set of apps whether you're running from a portable drive, a cloud drive, or run locally! If you'd like to see more features and functionality keep coming, please read a personal appeal from PortableApps.com founder John T. Haller to help! You can also buy the platform and a suite of apps on the hardware-encrypted PortableApps.com Carbide or fast and affordable PortableApps.com Companion available in our hardware store. Read on for all the details...(permalink)
Existing Platform users can automatically update by clicking Help - Check for Updates.
New in 14.4
This release adds custom platform security to scan for and mitigate DLL hijacks in: 2048, BabelPad, ClamWin, Foxit, Google Chrome, Kaspersky TDSSKiller, LibreOffice, McAfee Stinger, Opera, Opera Mail, Skype, Thunderbird, and various launchers. These apps have been shown to load certain DLLs unsafely in the recent "Fine Dining" section of the Vault 7 leak and the platform now scans for both DLLs which should not be included as well as DLLs which can be replaced. The platform verifies the authenticity of the latter using secure SHA256 hashing. While these techniques are not currently known to spread malware via personal removable drives or cloud drives, now that these techniques have been publicized it could occur in the future, so we have added security mitigation now. We've posted a full story on the leak and our mitigation techniques. The Swedish and Traditional Chinese locales have also been updated.