BlackHat shows off yet more holes

As conference highlights security issues, MS dares hackers to find more.

A tidal wave of new security flaws, and vectors for hacking and malware, has gushed out of the BlackHat conference, held last week in Las Vegas. Issues raised include the potential for exploiting RSS feeds, problems with Vista device drivers and AMD64 virtualisation, holes in Cisco firewalls, and leaks from Xerox printers. Meanwhile Microsoft has challenged hackers to break into Vista, to highlight security problems.

07 August 2006

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