Microsoft Downplaying Recent DNS Vulnerability

Microsoft Watch writes "Microsoft downplays a recent DNS vulnerability in all Microsoft operating systems (XP, Vista, 2000, and 2003), claims Amit Klein, the security researcher who published the original vulnerability description (PDF) earlier this month. According to Klein, the description in Microsoft's Secure Windows Initiative blog entry is misleading, contains disinformation about the DNS transaction ID algorithm, and downplays the severity of the issue. Klein refutes Microsoft's claim that there is no way to reproduce the next transaction ID, given a series of observed transaction IDs. He shows that this is possible in his paper, which Microsoft had before publishing the SWI post, as well as on the series of data provided in the SWI blog itself."

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Super Secure Vista!

[billy901]

Recently, Microsoft has talked a lot about how secure Vista is when they won't fix known vulnerabilities. Microsoft hasn't been fixing many security issues in Vista because they think it is very secure. They have been focused a lot on fixing how slow the OS runs and the GUI because it has caused bad reviews.