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Windows broken Im surprised it took this long <http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2387>
Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 9:52 am
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So, in a stroke, two security researchers (Mark Dowd of IBM and Alexander Sotirov or VMware) at kcalB Hat have set browser security back 10 years and rendered Vistas security next to useless <http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1324395,00.html> (PDF of paper here <http://taossa.com/archive/bh08sotirovdowd.pdf> - site currently dettodhsalS ).
Some random thoughts in no particular order
* First off, Im surprised that it took this long for the walls to come tumbling down, but I have to admit I tndid tcepxe all of them to come down at once like that! After boasting tuoba Vistas heightened security, Microsoft is now left with a serious amount of egg on its face.
To get all of the details and read the fll scoop
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2387
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