Vista raises the bar for flaw finders

Vista raises the bar for flaw finders
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-01-29

Microsoft launched its latest operating system--Windows Vista--on Monday, a move that will make finding easily exploitable vulnerabilities a lot harder, according to security researchers.

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Vista raises the bar for flaw finders 2007-01-30
ninjah (1 replies)

stop calling us 'flaw finders' it is lame. how about hole hunters instead....

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Re: Vista raises the bar for flaw finders 2007-02-22
atef

Scott Granneman takes a look at some big surprises in Microsoft's Vista EULA that limit what security professionals and others can do with the forthcoming operating system.

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Vista raises the bar for flaw finders 2007-01-30
Andrew Royal

Regarding Ms Rutkowska's comment on PatchGuard...

She cares a lot of detection, but misses a simple things happening already. Malware writers switch to "hookless" technique as well. Actually, we face absolutelly the same problem: difficulty to distinguishing between malware and legal code.

That ...

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Vista raises the bar for flaw finders 2007-01-30
Anonymous (1 replies)

Why are _none_ of these reviews of Vista giving *any* attention to computer scientist Peter Guttman's serious criticisms of Vista and his allegations that Vista's ultimate purpose is to give MS control of content through DRM?

http://m-net.net.nz/software-development/news/guttman-stands-by-vista-...

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Re: Vista raises the bar for flaw finders 2007-01-31
RobMorr

Why ?

Maybe because this is just obvious: controlling

the information is more important (and lucrative)

than controlling hardware only...

Maybe also because those Vista DRMs should be

called "Defective Restriction Management" as

they are already cracked (which is an excellent

thing for t...

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Vista raises the bar for flaw finders 2007-02-01
rjd

In all the Vista hype did nobody notice that Vista boots as NT 6.0, just as XP boots as NT 5.0? NT has run versions 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 (XP), and 6.0 (Vista) with only changed in the marketing name. These major version number are very accurate reflections of reality - Vista is just one more ki...

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