Windows Vista Security Flaw Discovered

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Author: Dave Lewis

MSNBC is running a piece about the apparent discovery of a security flaw in the new Vista operating system.

Windows Vista, the new computer operating system that Microsoft Corp. is touting as its most secure ever, contains a programming flaw that might let hackers gain full control of vulnerable computers.

Microsoft and independent security researchers, however, tried to play down the risk from the flaw, which was posted on a Russian site recently and is apparently the first affecting the new Vista system released to larger businesses in late November.

This particular problem only affects a system that the malicious character already has access to already. This has little more significance than to be the first reported vulnerability. Although I would say that Joanna Rutkowska’s work would qualify as being the first.

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