---
id: 4576
title: "Windows 8 ate my cookie"
source_domain: blog.quarkslab.com
source_url: "https://blog.quarkslab.com/windows-8-ate-my-cookie.html"
published_at: "2014-03-31T22:00:00Z"
tags: ["windows", "reverse-engineering", "debugging", "mitigation", "stack-cookie"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4576"
lang: en
---

# Windows 8 ate my cookie

## Summary

Windows 8's stack-cookie protection investigated: the default cookie is already randomised before a program's entry point, so the authors use kernel debugging to find which loader code sets it.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.quarkslab.com
- **Published:** 2014-03-31T22:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://blog.quarkslab.com/windows-8-ate-my-cookie.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4576