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At the CanSecWest Security Conference in Vancouver this week, Charlie Miller made headlines by exploiting a Safari vulnerability on a fully patched Mac OS X system with a fully patched Safari web browser in mere seconds to claim the Pwn2Own prize. Ryan...
Granted, Windows 7 will still be Windows 7. So, moving from Windows 7 Beta to Windows 7 RC will not fundamentally change your operating system. Still, the whole point of Beta testing is to identify problems and gather user feedback to incorporate changes...
While Microsoft has maintained that UAC (User Account Control) is not a security control, and that the behavior of UAC in Windows 7 is by design in response to the feedback and negative publicity that UAC has received in Windows Vista, they have now announced...
That darn UAC function just can't stand to not be the center of attention. It has been one of the most talked about features of Windows Vista - good, bad, or indifferent as your point of view might be- and now it has more or less dominated the discussion...
Soon after identifying a controversial design decision related to the default implementation of UAC in Windows 7, Beta tester Long Zheng identified another issue with UAC in Windows 7 that is of greater concern. In a nutshell, because of the inherent...
Last week a Windows 7 Beta tester posted a blog entry describing a flaw or weakness in the way UAC (User Account Control) is implemented in Windows 7. For starters, although I titled this post 'Security vs. Usability' I want to to stress that...