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Microsoft acknowledges Windows Vista vulnerability

Microsoft this morning confirmed a security vulnerability affecting programs including Windows Vista. An excerpt from the Microsoft Security Response Blog:

"Initial indications are that in order for the attack to be successful, the attacker must already have authenticated access to the target system. Of course these are preliminary findings and we have activated our emergency response process involving a multitude of folks who are investigating the issue in depth to determine the full scope and potential impact to Microsoft's customers. Currently we have not observed any public exploitation or attack activity regarding this issue. While I know this is a vulnerability that impacts Windows Vista I still have every confidence that Windows Vista is our most secure platform to date. As always, we here at the MSRC encourage everyone to enable a firewall, apply all security updates and install anti-virus and anti-spyware software."

Coverage: ComputerWorld and Ars Technica.

Update, 12/26: See also this New York Times story, reporting on this issue and other potential security problems found in Windows Vista. (We published it in Monday's paper, as well, via the New York Times News Service.)

Posted by at December 22, 2006 10:03 a.m.
Category: Windows

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#19691

Posted by syzito1 at 12/23/06 6:08 a.m.

There will alway be a certain group of people that will have the know how to hack any type of internet device that is used in communications.

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#19796

Posted by unregistered user at 12/25/06 3:01 a.m.

"Initial indications are that in order for the attack to be successful, the attacker must already have authenticated access to the target system."

That's a vulnerability on every platform in the world, if you want to call it that.

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#19810

Posted by John Bailo at 12/25/06 12:31 p.m.

Linux is like the kid in the classroom who knows the answer, but the teacher never picks. Windows is like the teacher's pet, who is too dumb to ever get the answer, and yet is chosen all the time. Go figure.

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#19882

Posted by unregistered user at 12/27/06 1:59 p.m.

When Microsoft says they're making the "most secure" Windows ever (A line which they used back in WinXP and the release of SP2)...One wonders what their definition of "secure" is, and how it ranks to everyone else's definition of secure.

Then again, slapping on security implementations and ideas from other platforms does NOT counter the fact that the code itself is sloppy and not well thought out. (I often find the decisions they make are mainly because the folks in management are just idiots with their own agenda).

Its amazing that this US$50+ Billion dollar company can produce so much crap.

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#20009

Posted by unregistered user at 12/28/06 7:14 p.m.

oh c'mon a hole will be found. acknowledge it fix it and move on. there are routesr, OS, and many other co that don't even fix it.

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#20030

Posted by BadderMan at 12/28/06 11:45 p.m.

I'm shocked, *shocked* to find vulnerabilities going on here! (with apologies to the late, great Claude Rains)

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#20151

Posted by unregistered user at 12/31/06 3:02 a.m.

[Posted by : John Bailo]
Linux is like the kid in the classroom who knows the answer, but the teacher never picks
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Hehehe, I think so that is the really truth. Anyway, in all systems ever, have been found bugs after their "official releases" and released patches for those problems. Some new programs of MS I think that really "optimized" but other ones, I think that are a really bad and ugly crap, really and terrible "heavy" programs that tooks minutes to start and become usefull (check at Live Messenger site :P) .

Bullo

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