Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 16th Sep 2009 14:56 UTC
While Snow Leopard includes some improvements in the area of security, noted security researcher Charlie Miller, winner of two consecutive "Pwn2own" hacker contests and co-author of The Mac Hacker's Handbook, concludes that Apple missed the boat on security in Mac OS X Snow Leopard. "Snow Leopard's more secure than Leopard, but it's not as secure as Vista or Windows 7," Miller said.
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Remote Vulnerability Reported in Vista, Windows 7 and Server 2008
Reports are spreading this morning of a remote network vulnerability in the SMB2 protocol, affecting Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7. Earlier versions of Windows, including Windows XP, are not affected. File sharing has to be turned on, which is not the default.
The initial report, and the one with the most detail, is on Laurent Gaffié's blog, The key part of the description: "SRV2.SYS fails to handle malformed SMB headers for the NEGOTIATE PROTOCOL REQUEST functionality." He includes a proof of concept exploit and HD Moore is working hard to get it into Metasploit.
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2009/09/remote_vulnerability_r...
ALSO ***69** MORE vulnerabilities for VISTA HERE:
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/13223/?task=advisories
Thom is that enough for you???
Edited 2009-09-16 15:54 UTC