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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.
Next will he be standing under a "Mission Accomplished" banner, despite the obvious failure?
Well, it is unless Ubuntu or one of the other Linux distros finally make that hurdle across the final 5% or 1% of making things 'just work' that seems to elude open source developers.
Dude, I just downloaded Ubuntu today. I made the install CD which they brag is also a "live CD" so I can boot straight into Ubuntu to see how well it works. Well, I tried it out on two different PC's, and it crashes when I use firefox on either of them. I should have known a OS named after some African wouldn't work.