Security flaws in Vista?
Today’s New York Times has an article about reported new flaws in Vista security. Since Microsoft has been pushing much improved security as a big selling point for its new operating system, any problems in this area would not be good news for Redmond. According to the Times article:
Microsoft is facing an early crisis of confidence in the quality of its Windows Vista operating system as computer security researchers and hackers have begun to find potentially serious flaws in the system that was released to corporate customers late last month.
The article also says:
Vista is critical to Microsoft’s reputation. Despite an almost four-and-half-year campaign on the part of the company, and the best efforts of the computer security industry, the threat from harmful computer software continues to grow. Criminal attacks now range from programs that steal information from home and corporate PCs to growing armies of slave computers that are wreaking havoc on the commercial Internet.
It remains to be seen how serious the reported security holes are but this article can’t have added much joy to Christmas in Seattle.
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