FUD: Windows is "most secure OS"
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| Andy Patrizio has an incredibly sloppy story entitled "Surprise,
| Microsoft Listed as Most Secure OS" at internetnews.com, which
| purports to summarize the recently released Symantec Internet
| Security Thread Report Volume XI. But if you look closely at
| the actual report (PDF), you'll see that this claim that Windows
| is "Most Secure" is based merely on Microsoft's relative speediness
| in patching security holes.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/03/22/fud-windows-is-most-secure-os/
Microsoft issues Vista security scorecard, gives itself an A-plus
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| But simply counting up vulnerabilities, patched or not, doesn't tell
| the whole story, argued Oliver Friedrichs, senior director of
| Symantec Corp.'s security response team.
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| "The severity of [a] vulnerability plays into this, too," Friedrichs
| said today. "A single vulnerability that has a high severity could
| lead to the next Sasser or Blaster [worm], but an OS with a larger
| [bug] count, but with [ones rated] less high may be in a better
| defensive position overall."
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=windows&articleId=9014080&taxonomyId=125
Yesterday:
The problems with Vista laid bare - What might have been
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| ...the trick that XP misses is that you must compel all ordinary
| users to have restricted, non-admin accounts. You make it impossible
| - or at least really hard - for normal accounts to have super-user
| powers. Ordinary users can see their own files, but not each other's
| or the protected ones of the OS itself, and they can't touch anything
| that might cause problems.
|
| [...]
|
| It's never going to happen now - it's too late for Vista, and after
| this, there will probably never be such a big change in Windows again,
| until it's replaced with something new.
|
| But here's a fun thought. What if Microsoft were held legally
| responsible for all those vulnerable, insecure Windows
| installations out there?
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38419
Related:
New security hole discovered in Microsoft Word
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| Attackers can use specially prepared text documents to take full
| control of computers, warns the German Federal Agency for Security
| in Information Technology (BSI).
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http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IE320070318055211&Page=3&Title=Features+-+Health+%26+Science&Topic=166
http://tinyurl.com/2gbu6n
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/
Vista still vulnerable
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| Vulnerabilities in Windows Vista will plague users in coming months
| and years, a prominent security researcher warns, despite its
| security improvements over predecessor XP.
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/security/vista-still-vulnerable/2007/02/26/1172338546822.html
http://tinyurl.com/2o82lf
Flaw found in Office 2007
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| Researchers have discovered a "highly critical" security flaw in
| newly released Office 2007, despite Microsoft's efforts to deliver
| its most secure version yet of the productivity software.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6161835.html
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