Archive for the 'Hackers' Category
Windows Vista: How To Beat The Windows Hackers
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006I think that we have long since established that Vista will indeed offer better security features than any other version of Windows before it. And considering this, I also believe that Vista will become a rather large exploit target once it’s released to the mainstream market.
In the end, Microsoft could be facing a very serious [...]
Hackers Train Sights on Vista
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006Got a visual of hackers snickering at Microsoft’s Windows Vista and security tools and effortlessly hacking away at them from their workstations? Or, maybe of exhausted, caffeine-guzzling hackers pounding their fists in frustration at the newly fortressed Vista that has them locked out?
Either way, you’ve got the picture all wrong.
Microsoft blocks Black Hat Vista hack
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006Microsoft has changed Windows Vista to prevent a hack that was demonstrated at a high-profile security event this summer, but the fix may spell trouble.
Joanna Rutkowska, a Polish researcher at Singapore-based Coseinc, demonstrated the hack at Black Hat in August. She showed that it was possible to bypass security measures in 64-bit versions of Vista [...]
Hackers Will Break Vista PatchGuard
Saturday, October 14th, 2006A computer security expert is predicting that hackers will crack the controversial PatchGuard kernel anti-tampering technology coming in Windows Vista within one year of its release.
Alexander Czarnowski, chief executive of Avet, in Warsaw, Poland, said he believes it’s inevitable that the technology will be broken once the final version of Windows Vista is released to [...]
White Hat: Vista Gets High Marks For Security
Thursday, August 10th, 2006The Windows operating system always has been notorious for its security flaws. This has been partly because its ubiquity makes it the most widespread target for hackers and thieves, but it’s also because Microsoft’s security efforts have often been clumsy or incomplete.
But with Vista, the much-ballyhooed (and delayed) version of Windows, the company seems to [...]
Windows Vista Succumbs to Blue Pill
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006Microsoft spent a whole day at the Black Hat conference last week extolling the security enhancements in its upcoming Vista operating system. Joanna Rutkowska, a security researcher with security firm Coseinc, spent a day picking it apart. Then again, what else would you expect from a session at a hacker convention titled: "Subverting Vista Kernel [...]
Vista plays hide-and-seek with hackers
Saturday, June 3rd, 2006Microsoft is starting a game of hide-and-seek with malicious code writers.
Windows Vista Beta 2, released last week, includes a new security feature designed to protect against buffer overrun exploits. Called Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR), the feature loads key system files in different memory locations each time the PC starts, making it harder for [...]
