microsoft challenges hackers

[jkirk]

i will laugh my a$$ off if vista is hacked 20 minutes after launch.:lol:

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[blobrana]

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)

[Vincent]

I wouldn't be surprised if cracks appeared before the official launch of Vista.  Just like XP.

M$ told the hackers to take their best shot at the X-Box and they're coming along nicely with that :-)

[Karlos]

jkirk wrote:


i will laugh my a$$ off if vista is hacked 20 minutes after launch.:lol:

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It's a cunning plan. Require the hackers to register before they can take part. Then have them arrested and thrown in a custom built MS dungeon, thereby depopulating the world of windows hackers, thereby improving the security....

[Vincent]

:lol:

Good idea, but the hackers will find a way around the registration ;-)

[T_Bone]

Vincent wrote:
:lol:

Good idea, but the hackers will find a way around the registration ;-)

Or they'll just breed in the dungeons, where the MS-Hacker gene will become prevalent in their race and they escape, and are given a homeland by the UN at which point the Palestinians will claim all their base are really theirs.

[blobrana]

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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[jkirk]

using legal commands to hack windows? ha ha too much. :roflmao: