Vista vulnerable to malware from 2004
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| Microsoft's Vista may be vulnerable to at least three pieces of
| widespread malware, two of which date back to 2004 , according to
| security vendor Sophos.
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http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/163296.html
Despite overhyped and overfunded promises (say it often enough and the crowd
will believe it):
Microsoft's Message on Vista Security
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| Ballmer & Co. say their new operating system will go far to
| protect computers from threats, but malware writers are sure
| to put Vista to the test
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2006/tc20061130_639721.htm?campaign_id=bier_tcc.g3a.rssd1202a
Related:
Will Vista attacks come sooner or later?
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| ...while Vista may be available to business users today, installing
| it and connecting a Vista PC to the Internet is not wise. Only one of
| the top four security vendors--McAfee--has antivirus tools ready for
| the new operating system. Microsoft itself advises users not to run
| Vista without antivirus software.
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http://news.com.com/2324-12640_3-6140188.html
Windows Vista's first malware warning
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| Web-based email services expose Windows Vista
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http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=7748
Three of the top ten malware threats run on Microsoft Vista, Sophos
tests show
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| Sophos tested each piece of malware in the top ten on the Vista
| operating system to establish whether users running Vista without
| any third-party security software would avoid infection.
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http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2006/11/toptennov.html?_log_from=rss
Microsoft stands by Patch Tuesday for Vista
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| Software giant Microsoft is set to continue releasing security
| patches and other updates on the first Tuesday of every month
| despite admitting that malicious software authors have started
| exploiting the predictability of its updates.
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http://zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Microsoft_stands_by_Patch_Tuesday_for_Vista/0,130061733,339272495,00.htm
Windows kernel protection expected to break soon
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| PatchGuard, a Microsoft technology to protect key parts of Windows,
| will be hacked sooner rather than later, a security expert said Thursday.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6125274.html
Windows Vista: It's More Secure, We Promise
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| Well, allow me to take a moment to remind everyone of something that
| you might not remember - XP was also touted as being ultra secure.
| Seriously, can anyone honestly look themselves in the mirror and say
| this is the gospel truth? You have got to be kidding me. Similar to
| XP, Microsoft promises to have the most secure Windows version to date
| yet again.
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2357&Itemid=449
Perspective: Why Microsoft is wrong on Vista security
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| The net-net is that the user is demonstrably less safe as compared to
| during the XP days, when security vendors could use their advanced
| behavioral features.
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http://news.com.com/Why+Microsoft+is+wrong+on+Vista+security/2010-7349_3-6123924.html
http://tinyurl.com/fdhzw
IE 7 bugs abound
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| "But browser testers may already be at risk, according to security
| researcher Tom Ferris. Late Tuesday, Ferris released details of a potential
| security flaw in IE 7. An attacker could exploit the flaw by crafting a
| special Web page that could be used to crash the browser or gain complete
| control of a vulnerable system, Ferris said in an advisory on his Web site.
| Microsoft had no immediate comment on Ferris' alert."
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http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-6034054.html?part=rss&tag=6034054&subj=news
Black Hat Takes Vista to Task
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| She demonstrated two potential attack vectors. One could allow unsigned
| code to be loaded into the Vista kernel. The second vector involved
| taking advantage of AMD's Pacific Hardware Virtualization to inject a
| new form of super malware that Rutkowska claimed to be undetectable.
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http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3624861
Symantec highlights Windows Vista user vulnerabilities
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| Symantec has shed more light on potential vulnerabilities in Windows
| Vista that could circumvent new security measures and leave users
| vulnerable to attack.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/02/symantec_windows_vista_security/
Symantec continues Vista bug hunt
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| After poking around the Windows Vista networking stack, Symantec
| researchers have tried out privilege-escalation attacks on an early
| version of the Windows XP successor.
|
| "We discovered a number of implementation flaws that continued to allow
| a full machine compromise to occur," Matthew Conover, principal
| security researcher at Symantec, wrote in the report titled "Attacks
| against Windows Vista's Security Model." The report was made available
| to Symantec customers last week and is scheduled for public release
| sometime before Vista ships, a Symantec representative said Monday.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6097976.html
Six reasons you'll hate networking in Windows Vista
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| Author finds some details 'maddening,' 'brain dead' and 'laughably
| rudimentary.'
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9003835&pageNumber=1
Symantec Finds Flaws In Vista's Network Stack
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| Researchers with Symantec's advanced threat team poked through
| Vista's new network stack in several recent builds of the
| still-under-construction operating system, and found several bugs
| -- some of which have been fixed, including a few in Monday's
| release -- as well as broader evidence that the rewrite of the
| networking code could easily lead to problems.
|
| [...]
|
| Among Newsham's and Hoagland's conclusions: "The amount of new
| code present in Windows Vista provides many opportunities for
| new defects."
|
| "It's true that some of the things we found were 'low-hanging
| fruit,' and that some are getting fixed in later builds,"
| said Friedrichs. "But that begs the question of what else
| is in there?"
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http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/190700049;jsessionid=MWLALDT21M1...
Symantec Says Windows Vista Will be Less Secure than XP
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| Symantec said earlier last week that there were no viruses for Apple's
| OS X.
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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3389
Symantec sees an Achilles' heel in Vista
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| Some of Microsoft's efforts to make Windows Vista its most stable and
| secure operating system ever could cause instability and new security
| flaws, according to a Symantec report.
|
| [...]
|
| "Microsoft has removed a large body of tried and tested code and
| replaced it with freshly written code, complete with new corner cases
| and defects," the researchers wrote in the report, scheduled for
| publication Tuesday.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6095119.html
McAfee: Microsoft completely unrealistic on Vista
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| Windows Vista does not ship with antivirus software installed and active,
| but for the first time Microsoft will be promoting their own antivirus
| service in Windows OneCare. Alex Eckelberry, CEO of Sunbelt Software,
| has already called Microsoft's plans predatory based on pricing. McAfee
| is focusing its critique on operating system design, arguing instead that
| Microsoft's decisions with Vista will simply make the operating system
| less secure.
|
| In the advertisement, McAfee CEO George Samunek is quoted as saying,
| "Microsoft is being completely unrealistic if, by locking security
| companies out of the kernel, it thinks hackers won't crack Vista's kernel.
| In fact, they already have." The advert continues: "With its upcoming
| Vista operating system, Microsoft is embracing the flawed logic that
| computers will be more secure if it stops co-operating with the
| independent security firms."
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7875.html
Cisco exec: Windows Vista is scary
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| "Parts of Vista scare me," Gleichauf said at the Gartner Security Summit
| here on Monday. "Anything with that level of systems complexity will have
| new threats, as well as bringing new solutions. It's always a struggle
| in security, trying to build for what you don't know."
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6116823.html
http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Computing/Platforms?Article=/Computing/Platforms/R7G5G6U4
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| "Up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft new Vista
| operating system is set to be rewritten as the Company 'scrambles' to fix
| internal problems a Microsoft insider has confirmed to SHN... Microsoft has
| also admitted that it has major problems in it's Windows division and has
| has immediately initiated a total restructure of the division..."
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