This week at the Black Hat Security Conference two security researchers will discuss their findings which could completely bring Windows Vista to its knees. According to Dino Dai Zovi, a popular security researcher, "the genius of this is that it's completely reusable. They have attacks that let them load chosen content to a chosen location with chosen permissions. That's completely game over."
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Sorry to steal the thread, but would be nice if OSNews links the original story from Techtarget/SearchSecurity as it seems like Neowin stole the story without attribution.
Neowin also removed the comments on the story which gave them away, as if the Internet could be fooled that easily!
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Sorry to steal the thread, but would be nice if OSNews links the original story from Techtarget/SearchSecurity as it seems like Neowin stole the story without attribution.
Neowin also removed the comments on the story which gave them away, as if the Internet could be fooled that easily!
Original:
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gc...
Edit:
Link to PDF with more details:
http://taossa.com/archive/bh08sotirovdowd.pdf
( taken this from /. )
Edited 2008-08-08 14:47 UTC