Security flaws cloud horizon for Vista
Chinks have been found in the arm or of new Vista software that Microsoft has touted as the safest operating system it ever designed, a computer security firm said.
By Agencies |
SAN FRANCISCO: Chinks have been found in the arm or of new Vista software that Microsoft has touted as the safest operating system it ever designed, a computer security firm said.
Determina Security Research, in Silicon Valley, said it notified Microsoft of half a dozen software vulnerabilities, including potential for hackers to take administrative control of computers.
"The vulnerable code is present in all versions of Windows up to and including Windows Vista," Determina warned in a security bulletin on its website yesterday.
A Russian programmer that also discovered the potential to exploit a Vista weakness to gain access to computer systems published the information on the Internet on December 15.
Microsoft is working to patch Vista, according to Determina. A business version of Vista was released in November and is to be available for the home computer market on January 30.
Hackers could invade Vista-based computers by sending booby trapped emails or tricking people into visiting websites that secretly plant malicious codes on their machines, according to Determina.
There were no reports of hackers taking advantage of the weakness in any Windows operating systems.
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