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Vista Hacking Challenge Answered

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-some-work-to-be-done dept.

debiansid writes "Microsoft's most secure Operating System yet has been compromised at the Black Hat hacker conference. We all know that Andrew Cushman, Microsoft's director of security outreach invited the Black Hats over to touch and feel Vista in order to showcase the superiority of this OS. Joanna Rutkowska, from Coseinc, a Singapore-based security firm, obliged and showed how it is possible to bypass security measures in Vista that prevents unsigned code from running with the help of a little software she calls the 'Blue Pill.'" To be fair, the hack was possible only when the target is in administrator mode rather than a limited user account.

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  1. OMG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    news at 11. Blackhats discover it is possible to compromise a machine if you have admin/root privileges. OMG, what are we gonna do.

    seriously why is this even posted here, what moron considers being able to do nasty things when your an admin an OS based problem? if it is we all better pack up, go home and give up.

  2. since when? by wardk · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    this comment:

    "Microsoft's most secure Operating System yet has been compromised at the Black Hat hacker conference.

    MOST SECURE???? based on WHAT evidence??

    what's that? there is NO evidence that this is the case? I thought so.