Thursday, November 20th, 2008
An Austrian security vendor has found a vulnerability in Windows Vista that it says could possibly allow an attacker to run unauthorized code on a PC.
The problem is rooted in the Device IO Control, which handles internal device communication. Researchers at Phion have found two different ways to cause a ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Windows Vista operating system is far better protected from attack code than Windows XP is. However, in a report issued last week, the company said that its own ActiveX plug-in technology is a significant threat to Vista.
The latest of the company's twice-yearly security intelligence reports said that half of the ...
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
Microsoft Corp. yesterday acknowledged that exploit code is circulating for a vulnerability it acknowledged six months ago, but has yet to patch.
It's not clear whether Microsoft intends to fix the flaw next week.
On Thursday, Microsoft revised a security advisory it first posted April 19 about a bug in Windows XP, ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Although Windows XP was Microsoft's preferred desktop operating system for an unprecedented length of time, it became something of a PR nightmare for the software giant. Windows XP is full of security holes and is very easy to compromise. When Microsoft created Windows Vista, its primary goal was to address ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
This week at the Black Hat Security Conference two security researchers will discuss their findings which could completely bring Windows Vista to its knees.Mark Dowd of IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) and Alexander Sotirov, of VMware Inc. have discovered a technique that can be used to bypass all memory protection ...
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