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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...
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...
Microsoft recently created a new blog site designed to provide insight on emerging vulnerabilities. The blog, titled <a href=”http://blogs.technet.com/swi/”>Security Vulnerability Research & Defense</a>, provides detailed...
According to a report from Danish security vendor Secunia, as many as one third of the applications in use on corporate networks are vulnerable to critical attacks. According to this SC Magazine article, Secunia sites deficiencies in commonly used vulnerability...
According to a study compiled by the Washington Post's Brian Krebs , Internet Explorer 6 was vulnerable for 284 out of 365 days in 2006. That amounts to over 77% of the year. What does that mean? It means the for 3/4 of the year there were known vulnerabilities...
Less than a month from its official release to corporate customers, a vulnerability was already discovered that affects Vista. According to Microsoft and others, the vulnerability can only be exploited if an attacker already has access to the system,...
A flaw in the way Microsoft Word 2000 documents are processed could allow an attacker to execute malicious code remotely on vulnerable systems according to a Secunia alert. Exploit code has been identified in the wild and no patch is currently available...
Microsoft continues to make security a priority and a primary development focus, but being a priority focus is not a guarantee of perfection. Windows Vista is still in Beta testing, but it was found that two of the patches released with the August Security...