Slashdot Mirror
Windows Zero-Day Affecting All OS Versions On Sale For $90,000 (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes: "A hacker going by the handle BuggiCorp is selling a zero-day vulnerability affecting all Windows OS versions that can allow an attacker to elevate privileges for software processes to the highest level available in Windows, known as SYSTEM," writes Softpedia. The zero-day is up for sale on a Russian underground hacking forum, and is currently available for $90,000 -- after it was initially up for $95,000. The hacker is saying he'll sell the zero-day to one person only, who'll receive its source code and a working demo. Two videos are available, one showing the hacker exploit Windows 10 with the May 2016 security patch, and another one bypassing all EMET features. While security experts think the zero-day may be overpriced, they think the hacker will find a buyer regardless.
Win 3.11 was an operating environment, so technically not the Win 3.x family. The real question is, will it work on WinME, because even officially authorized software was unable to work with it...
Sadly it ain't that easy. Yes, Linux has come a long way, but there are still a few areas where it is lacking. Notoriously most non-server related hardware.
Yes, you can get drivers for even the most esoteric RAID 6+0 controller you could imagine, but there is little to no support for programmable mice (you know the kind, with the 20 buttons), programmable flight sticks, hell, it's a gamble with most advanced audio cards whether you get any kind of support for the features that elevate them above the sound that you could get out of your mainboard and it's even nontrivial for people without a decent Linux background to get their graphics acceleration working. And even games that allegedly have Linux support usually mean that "it should run in Mono, right?"
In other words, Linux on a server? Any time. And probably better supported and faster than what you'll get on Windows.
Linux on the desktop? Not if gaming is your goal and/or nonstandard non-server hardware is what you'll be using. This is not necessarily the fault of Linux itself, more one of hardware manufacturer delivering zero to little support for their hardware for use in Linux. Which in turn is mostly due to most people buying their hardware for Windows and only installing Linux as an afterthought, only to find out that their Hardware is not working as it should, blame Linux and switch back.
And no, I don't have a solution ready for this.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.