On Aug 11, 2008, at 9:14 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
Peter,
Thanks for posting this. Josh's story does appear to be a bit of a
Chicken Little "the sky is falling" report.
I use XP and not Vista, and according to your article, if I read it
right, XP is even more vulnerable. And while I'm on multi
Bob S wrote:
"The real bear here that I can see is the possibility of going to a
perfectly valid web site to do my banking let's say, and then having
content injected into my web browser unbeknownst to me that could
compromise my credentials. THAT would be pretty bad. If that is what
we ar
Peter,
Thanks for posting this. Josh's story does appear to be a bit of a
Chicken Little "the sky is falling" report.
I use XP and not Vista, and according to your article, if I read it
right, XP is even more vulnerable. And while I'm on multiple XP
computers up to 8+ hrs most days-- I can't reme
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080811-the-sky-isnt-falling-a-look-at-a-new-vista-security-bypass.html
has a more complete account. If its correct, Firefox seems to be vulnerable
also, at least to some variants, but the problem is considerably less severe
than represented in the popular p
Hmmm...
I think the gist of this story is that their methods are not like
previous low level methods which require a fairly sophisticated degree
of competency, and that they used a completely new vector. I also took
note that their methodology was not SPECIFICALLY vista based as it did
no
I just love phrases like 'rendered useless'. Now I am not a great fan of
MicroSoft products, but:
I ran a Pentium 3 with Windows 2000 for a year; running about 16 hours a day,
with not a single virus, trojan or relative of pinocchio causing problems. How
did I do it?
1. By realising that the m
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Josh Mellicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If this is indeed 'unfixable', some organizations concerned about these
> attacks might consider a migration to OS X?
Wouldn't it be much easier to just switch browsers from IE to Firefox?
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Oops, this is the link I meant to post:
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/08/08/vista39s-security-rendered-completely-useless-by-new-exploit
On Aug 10, 2008, at 7:56 PM, Josh Mellicker wrote:
Two security researchers have developed a new technique that
essentially bypasses all of the memory
Two security researchers have developed a new technique that
essentially bypasses all of the memory protection safeguards in the
Windows Vista operating system, an advance that many in the security
community say will have far-reaching implications not only for
Microsoft, but also on how the
