Dude! Josef Lowder wrote: . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/technology/25vista.html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/technology/25vista.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Didn't take long, did it? Excerpts: M$ has spent millions branding its new Vista operating system as the most secure product it has ever produced. But M$ is facing an early crisis of confidence in the quality of Vista as computer security researchers and hackers have begun to find potentially serious flaws in the system that as released to corporate customers late last month. On Dec. 15, a Russian programmer posted a description of a flaw that makes it possible to increase a user’s privileges on all of the company’s recent operating systems, including Vista. And over the weekend a Silicon Valley computer security firm said it had notified M$ that it had also found that flaw, as well as five other vulnerabilities, including one serious error in the software code underlying the company’s new Internet Explorer 7 browser. The browser flaw is particularly troubling because it potentially means that Web users could become infected with malicious software simply by visiting a booby-trapped site. That would make it possible for an attacker to inject rogue software into the Vista-based computer, according to executives at Determina, a company based in Redwood City, Calif. ... the vulnerability described on the Russian Web site permits the privileges of a standard user account in Vista and other versions of Windows to be increased, permitting control of all of the operations of the computer. ... Determina executives said that by itself, the browser flaw that was reported to M$ could permit damage like the theft of password information and the attack of other computers. ... Determina researchers said they had notified M$ of four other flaws they had discovered, including a bug that would make it possible for an attacker to repeatedly disable a M$ Exchange mail server simply by sending the program an infected e-mail message. Last week, the chief technology officer of Trend Micro, a computer security firm in Tokyo, told several computer news Web sites that he had discovered an offer on an underground computer discussion forum to sell information about a security flaw in Windows Vista for $50,000. ... Many computer security companies say that there is a lively underground market for information that would permit attackers to break in to systems via the Internet. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss Keith Smith A link from my website to yours Submit Your Metro Phoenix Website __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com