Vista's Security Rendered Completely Useless by New Exploit

[Randy]

I know this isn't really Linux-related, but since many of us have to support that other operating system, I thought it would be of interest to our members. - RT

This week at the Black Hat Security Conference two security researchers will discuss their findings which could completely bring Windows Vista to its knees.

More here:

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/08/0 ... ew-exploit

[LinuxNative]

Awesome!.....just awesome!

[Randy]

Ars Technica has analyzed recently publicized Vista's security flaws. "Unfortunate, yes, but not as was reported in the immediate aftermath of the presentation evidence that Vista's security is useless, nor does this work constitute a major security issue. And it's not game over, either. Sensationalism sells, and there's no news like bad news, but sometimes particularly when covering security issues, it would be nice to see accuracy and level-headedness instead. ... Furthermore, these attacks are specifically on the buffer overflow protections; they do not circumvent the IE Protected Mode sandbox, nor Vista's (in)famous UAC restrictions."

In case you missed the link above, here it is:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... ypass.html