Star Vista's Security Rendered Completely Useless By New Exploit
Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 8th Aug 2008 13:14 UTC
Windows 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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RE[4]: Bottom Line
by eantoranz on Fri 8th Aug 2008 20:51 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Bottom Line"
eantoranz
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2005-12-18

I am looking for the day when that single box hosts so many connections with fully-featured GUIs. Joe Sixpack doesn't want to work with consoles.


Sorry to disappoint you, man... but this is pretty old news: http://linuxgazette.net/124/smith.html

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