February 15th, 2007

first critical fix for vista

The site, by Paul Godden.
Windows Vista

Yeap I’m back, and imagine my surprise when one of the first stories I looked at concerned a security fix for Windows Defender, which is now integral with Vista.

This is really the second vulnerability that’s been discovered in recent months. The funniest and most overlooked flaw was with the built-in speech recognition system in Vista. A clever attacker could use an airport tannoy system, for instance, to execute malicious windows commands on a large scale. “run del c: *”??? [SHOW ME]

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