Security watchers lambast Vista
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Malware blocking credentials questioned Windows Vista has only just left the starting blocks but security watchers have wasted no time in challenging claims that it provides improved security defences.â¦
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As infected images plant back doors on PCs, experts see possibility of virus too.
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A trio of new and unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows were made public on security mailing lists over the weekend. By Gregg Keizer.
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A status report released yesterday by the director of Microsoft's Security Technology Unit contends that, over the first six months of its shelf life, Windows Vista was proven more secure than its competitors during their first six months, and more secure than Windows XP after its debut, by virtue of the sole fact that fewer Vista vulnerabilities were entered into the National Vulnerability Database.
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By MARK JEWELL    CAMBRIDGE, Mass.  -- The surveillance cameras that keep watch over our daily activities are being watched...
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A nonprofit group in Mumbai is spearheading an effort to place keyloggers -- which many computer users would regard as spyware -- on public machines in cybercaf&eacute;s. Reaction is mixed, and police have yet to give their assent to the plan.
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There are still many ways attackers can exploit Windows Vista and leave users open to threats, according to a Symantec study.
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Windows Vista is still prone to attack by three notorious pieces of malware -- mainly because the threats in question rely on social engineering to launch their invasions.
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Competitors say they should be able replace a Windows feature that tells people about the security status of their PC.
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Outside security researchers say Windows Service Pack 2 has security vulnerabilities, but no confirmation from Microsoft. By George V. Hulme.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft has touted Vista as aÂ more secure version of Windows, but on the day ofÂ Vista's official launch, a security company has identified malware already in circulation that can infect computers running the OS. Sophos identified three viruses typically spread through e-mail that can infect Vista customers who use a third party Web e-mail client. While Vista's e-mail client stops Stratio-Zip, Netsky-D, and MyDoom-O, the malware slips past Vista's defenses when users receive infected messages through a Web-based e-mail service, Sophos said. Stratio-Zip topped Sophos' list of malware affecting computer users in the month of November, accounting for 33.3 percent of malware in circulation. Combined, the three viruses that can affect Vista users make up 39.7 percent of all malware in circulation during the month, Sophos said. However, even if the malware Sophos identified slips through in an e-mail, customers won't necessarily be affected, another researcher said. Additional Vista security mechanisms should protect users, said Mikko HyppÃ¶nen, chief research officer at F-Secure. If a customer opens an infected malware file, Vista would warn and question the user before allowing the malware to wreak havoc. "These particular examples of malware probably wouldn't still be able to successfully infect the machine unless the user specifically allows it," he wrote in an e-mail exchange. Sophos applauded the security improvements in Vista, saying that the variety of popular third party applications used by consumers inevitably will open doors to hackers. Other anti-virus companies haven't been so kind.Â McAfee has been highly criticalÂ of changes in the operating system that it says will make Vista less secure than previous versions of Windows. Symantec said itÂ has discovered vulnerabilitiesÂ in Vista's networking software which makes it less stable than Windows XP. Sophos found that overall, the proportion of infected e-mail remained low in November at 0.28 percent, but identified a record number of new threats, 7,612, during the month.
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Ben Fathi, now the chief of development in the Windows core operating system group, would like Vista to have half the first-year security flaws of its predecessor, XP. Security analysts offer their thoughts.
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Now that Microsoft has released the Windows Vista operating system and the Office 2007 productivity suite, talk has shifted from months of launch-date speculation to concerns over specific safeguards needed to ensure that the new software is secure.
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To see the e-mail I get every day from readers about security issues is to develop a deep discomfort with the state of computing today. Keeping a Windows PC safe can demand a high degree of vigilance -- if cars needed the same constant care and feeding, the Beltway would revert to a country byway.
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Images posted in news groups may install remote control software on vulnerable PCs.
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Windows users are being urged to download the latest batch of security updates from Microsoft.
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Hackers have come up with a way to get around one of Microsoft's antipiracy mechanisms for Vista.