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Security Firm VUPEN Claims To Have Hacked Windows 8 and IE10
An anonymous reader writes "Windows 8 was released late last week, and already this week French security firm VUPEN says it has broken Microsoft's latest and greatest security features. The company claims it has developed a 0-day exploit for Windows 8 and IE10, by chaining multiple undisclosed flaws together."
On the bright side, your typical hacker won’t be able to figure this one out either: Windows 8 raises the security bar even higher than before, and if it was easy, someone would have beaten VUPEN to it long ago.
And who thinks that other hackers won't figure this out?
More precisely, who says the other hackers would disclose it if they found such vulnerabilities? There's plenty of profit to be earned in vulnerabilities in the black market.
It's sad to see that MS has dominated the market for so long that exploits seem accetable and it's insightful to claim this. Software should be well-written before you start charging for it. Period.
OpenBSD has only had 2 remote security holes in several dozen releases, in over 15 years. Why is it acceptable that something you pay for has had thousands more every release?
Well - that was the main complaint about Linux.
And now -using windows- it is suddenly a no-brainer?
Wow... just wow!