Vista Hacked

[Dubh Aingeal]

"Microsoft's most secure Operating System yet has been compromised at the Black Hat hacker conference. We all know that Andrew Cushman, Microsoft's director of security outreach invited the Black Hats over to touch and feel Vista in order to showcase the superiority of this OS. Joanna Rutkowska, from Coseinc, a Singapore-based security firm, obliged and showed how it is possible to bypass security measures in Vista that prevents unsigned code from running with the help of a little software she calls the 'Blue Pill.'"

To be fair, the hack was possible only when the target is in administrator mode rather than a limited user account. All though all the users I know don't run in anything but the admin mode. They don't want the hassle of logging out and back in as the admin to install anything.

[The_Dark]

You might want to, in the interest of being fair, point out that that Vista is not even done yet. What they hacked was Beta version. Also, you have to know what your doing to be in Admin mode with Vista, the default is a limited account.

[Dubh Aingeal]

You might want to, in the interest of being fair, point out that that Vista is not even done yet. What they hacked was Beta version. Also, you have to know what your doing to be in Admin mode with Vista, the default is a limited account.

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When M$ is claiming that a beta version of their OS is the most secure version of Windows to date there is hardly a reason to be fair. They made the claims on its security and they were proven wrong.

Yes the default is a limited account. Provided you (like in XP) actually create more than one account. Otherwise you are in the Admin account and that is what a great number of users run in. If they didn't the so called security that windows attempts to use would be more efficent in keeping people from getting some of the viruses, malware, etc that require admin rights to cause their problems.