Vista Hacking Challenge Answered

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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Re:Only works as an administrator but...

[Ruff_ilb]

Yea, but from personal experience, they always will, or they'll do something else equally stupid ;-)

It's true that there's a definite limit on the sort of access control that's a good idea, but I do see this being a help.

Besides, this WILL give a more concrete point at which we can say "Don't do this again," because it'll specifically ask the user if they want to allow administrator priviledges to be used by program X at a definite point (and I bet it'll be logged) as opposed to just "Some program that I thought was a word processor/game/wallpaper/etc messed up my computer"