Can Microsoft ever stop kernel tampering in Vista?
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| I was just going through the slides from Joanna Rutkowska’s Black Hat talk
| (127-page .ppt file) and discovered that there’s another unpatched driver
| flaw that exposes Windows Vista to kernel tampering.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=447
Storm Worm of a thousand faces
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| Infections have shown a massive increase in recent weeks, being detected in
| 1.7 million unique hosts, according to internet security provider
| SecureWorks. That compared with just 2,817 hosts from January to May. The
| number of attacks blocked by SecureWorks has similarly skyrocketed, from
| 71,342 for the first five months of the year to 20.2 million since June.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/21/mutating_storm_worm/
Related:
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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