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Hackers Train Sights on Vista
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
Got 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.
White-hat hackers, or researchers, aren’t dissing Microsoft’s security plans, nor are they particularly worried about it cutting into their livelihood, they said in recent interviews with Dark Reading. Instead, they give Microsoft credit for raising the bar with Vista’s built-in security features…Vista — which officially gets launched next week, on November 30 — is no pushover, with its built-in firewall, user account control, and kernel patch protection, they say. "It’s now a lot harder — you’ve got to be able to do kernel programming and debugging," says researcher Jon Ellch, a.k.a. johnny cache, who is most famous for his wireless exploits and fingerprinting tool. "This severely ups the ante." Dark Reading - Desktop Security - Hackers Train Sights on Vista, Forefront - Security News Analysis
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