Archive for the 'Bugs and Issues' Category
Microsoft security guru wants Vista bugs rated less serious
Friday, March 23rd, 2007Microsoft’s own bug hunters should cut Windows Vista some slack and rate its vulnerabilities differently because of the operating system’s new, baked-in defenses, according to the developer who is often the public persona of the company’s Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) process. Michael Howard, a senior security program manager in Microsoft’s security engineering group, said that [...]
Microsoft guru predicts Vista half as buggy
Friday, March 23rd, 2007Microsoft’s recently released operating system, Windows Vista, will have up to 50 percent fewer Critical bugs and 30 percent fewer Important bugs as Windows XP Service Pack 2 over a two-year period, Michael Howard, security program manager for the software giant, predicted in a blog posting published last week.
Microsoft issues first Vista bug fix
Friday, February 16th, 2007Microsoft has issued 12 security bulletins addressing 20 vulnerabilities in Windows, including the first patch for a shipping component of Windows Vista since January’s consumer launch. Among the patches in the monthly update is a fix for a critical vulnerability in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine for Windows Vista. The component powers the Windows Defender [...]
Hacker, Microsoft duke it out over Vista design flaw
Friday, February 16th, 2007Joanna Rutkowska has always been a big supporter of the Windows Vista security model. Until she stumbled upon a "very severe hole" in the design of UAC (User Account Control) and found out — from Microsoft officials — that the default no-admin setting isn’t even a security mechanism anymore. Rutkowska, a hacker with a track [...]
Microsoft Updates Vista Before Rollout
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007Microsoft released several updates to Windows Vista on Monday, the day before the new operating system debuted for consumers and landed on retail shelves. None of the updates was a security fix. The five updates for the 32-bit version of Vista one was immediately replaced Tuesday with an update to the update fix difficulties installing [...]
The 5 sins of Vista
Thursday, January 25th, 2007Since Vista was released to MSDN subscribers back in November I have started using it on my primary development laptop. I would love to run it in a VMWare session while I am developing, but it is still not possible to get Aero Glass to run this way (I need glass running to get our [...]
Long list of Vista bugs that will keep me off Vista
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007After a grueling week of intense Vista RTM testing, I still can’t get Vista stable on my primary computer yet even though I’ve swapped out all the bad memory. This same PC has worked with and continues to work with Windows XP just fine. Even with the good memory in the computer, it [...]
Microsoft Acknowledges Vulnerability In Vista
Monday, December 25th, 2006A vulnerability that affects four of Microsoft’s operating systems, including Vista, doesn’t appear to pose a great risk, according to one security vendor. Microsoft’s security blog said proof-of-concept code has been publicly released that targets the Client-Server Runtime Subsystem (CSRSS), which performs functions such as launching and closing applications.
Vista flaws are greatly exaggerated
Saturday, December 9th, 2006In an analysis of a network of Trojan-infested PCs used for sending spam, security researcher Joe Stewart at SecureWorks in Atlanta found last month that 99.95 percent of the "bot-net" machines were running Windows, nearly half of which were Windows XP with Service Pack 2. This service pack was released in 2004 to address security [...]
Serious Bug Delays Vista RTM
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006At least two news outlets are citing sources claiming the final version of Windows Vista has been delayed at least a week due to a bug which could crash a system that was upgraded from Windows XP. The bug was found in build 5824, said to be the "release to manufacturing" build.
