microsoft challenges hackers

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Hum,
The reality is that vista is a lot less secure than XP due to the  new coding, which will contain many flaws.
Eventually, of course, the new coding design will become securer - i guess a year  or so after launch.

(which is handy if your hardware isn't that great now, and will need to be replaced  in a few years time anyway)

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Microsoft spent a whole day here at the Black Hat conference extolling the security enhancements in its upcoming Vista operating system.

Joanna Rutkowska, a security researcher with security firm Coseinc, spent a day picking it apart.
Then again, what else would you expect from a session at a hacker convention titled: "Subverting Vista Kernel For Fun And Profit"?
Rutkowska took the stage in front of a capacity audience and proceeded to explain how to get around Vista.
She demonstrated two potential attack vectors. One could allow unsigned code to be loaded into the Vista kernel. The second vector involved taking advantage of AMD's Pacific Hardware Virtualization to inject a new form of super malware that Rutkowska claimed to be undetectable.
Rutkowska's Vista kernel attack did not rely on any known bugs in Vista, which is still in beta testing. She stressed that her demonstration did not rely on any implementation bug nor any undocumented Windows Vista functionality.
She characterised her approaches as "legal," using documented SDK (define) features.

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