July 26, 2006
Hacking Vista
The seems to be a rash of news reports lately about vulnerabilities in Vista. Maybe it’s a quick way to grab a headline, to beat up the product that promises a better security model but has been delayed infinitely. The attacks are interesting, and reinforce that no new OS will be a fix-all for our security issues.
However, keep in mind that these tests are being run against a beta, and Microsoft has already fixed a number of the issues. I say let them hack away, after all isn’t that part of why Microsoft made the beat public?
Hacking the Vista Kernel [Dark Reading]
Symantec criticizes Vista’s User Account Control technology [ARS Technica]
