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Windows broken … I’m surprised it took this long
<http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2387>
Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 9:52 am
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So, in a stroke, two security researchers (Mark Dowd of IBM and
Alexander Sotirov or VMware) at Black Hat have set browser security back
10 years and rendered Vista’s security next to useless
<http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1324395,00.html>
(PDF of paper here <http://taossa.com/archive/bh08sotirovdowd.pdf> -
site currently Slashdotted …).
Some random thoughts in no particular order …
* First off, I’m surprised that it took this long for the walls to
come tumbling down, but I have to admit I didn’t expect all of
them to come down at once like that! After boasting about Vista’s
heightened security, Microsoft is now left with a serious amount
of egg on its face.
To get all of the details and read the fll scoop
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2387
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Windows broken … I’m surprised it took this long
<http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2387>
Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 9:52 am
*Categories:* Thoughts <http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?cat=6>,
Security <http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?cat=12>, Microsoft
<http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?cat=15>, Vista
<http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?cat=35>, Software
<http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?cat=41>
*Tags:* microsoft windows vista
<http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/microsoft+windows+vista.html>, microsoft
corp. <http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/microsoft+corp..html>, data
execution prevention
<http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/data+execution+prevention.html>,
microsoft windows vista (longhorn)
<http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/microsoft+windows+vista+%28longhorn%29.html>,
microsoft windows
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So, in a stroke, two security researchers (Mark Dowd of IBM and
Alexander Sotirov or VMware) at Black Hat have set browser security back
10 years and rendered Vista’s security next to useless
<http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1324395,00.html>
(PDF of paper here <http://taossa.com/archive/bh08sotirovdowd.pdf> -
site currently Slashdotted …).
Some random thoughts in no particular order …
* First off, I’m surprised that it took this long for the walls to
come tumbling down, but I have to admit I didn’t expect all of
them to come down at once like that! After boasting about Vista’s
heightened security, Microsoft is now left with a serious amount
of egg on its face.
To get all of the details and read the fll scoop
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2387
======================================================================
YOUR COMMENTS (NO DIATRIBE OR RANTS BY THE IMBECILES PLEASE) ARE
APPRECIATED.