Wednesday, December 27, 2006

New Vulnerable flaws found in Vista

Last week before Christmas a hacker posted a Windows Vista crack to Russian website and they were selling it for $50,000. I don't know if the latest flaw found in Vista is the one targeted by the hackers. The flaw affects older Windows systems, vulnerabilities like these are quite common and can be fixed with a software patch, which Microsoft releases on the second Tuesday of each month except for the most serious threats. The flaw remains a proof of concept, with no one known to have actually launched an attack with it. Microsoft representatives said that attackers with low-level access privileges on a vulnerable machine could theoretically use the flaw to bump up their status, ultimately gaining systemwide control. This just shows that even the million dollar worth of software can never be error-free.

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