Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Typically when Microsoft ships a new OS (like Windows Vista), we immediately start talking about the next version-which begs two questions: 1) is Microsoft working on a new version of Windows, and if so, 2) why aren't you talking about it?
I thought I would spend a minute giving you an ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Pretty cool video doing a local physical attack against a Vista Box.
http://www.offensive-security.com/movies/vistahack/vistahack.html
McGrew Security Blog pointed me to it:
"he demonstrates a quick and easy way of obtaining SYSTEM privileges on a Vista system, given physical access to the machine. In the video, he uses BackTrack to replace Utilman.exe with a copy ...
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Love or hate its nagging prompts, Vista's Account Control feature (UAC) has a security feature that marks it out from any other type of Windows security programme -- it can spot rootkits before they install.
This is one finding buried in a report published in two German computer ...
Posted in Internet, Networking, Privacy, Security, Windows | 1 Comment
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Microsoft have just published an article on the 5 most misunderstood features in Windows Vista from IT Professional's & Developer's point of view, these include:
User Account Control (UAC)
Image Management
Display Driver Model
Windows Search
64-bit version
Head over to the Microsoft Download Center to grab the document.
Source: Nicholas Rayner
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Rootkits are still a security scanner’s worst nightmare: New rootkit detection tests recently conducted by AV-Test.org found that security suites and online Web scanners detected overall only a little more than half of rootkits.
AV-Test.org, an indie security test organization based in Germany, ran two rootkit tests last month, one on ...
Posted in Coding, Hardware, Linux, Networking, Privacy, Security, Software, Windows | No Comments
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