Honest to God I don’t go around trying to pick on Windows for its security problems, but the hackers keep finding new ways to break into it. And, this time, they’ve found a doozie. Berend-Jan Wever, aka “Skylined,” a Google security software engineer has busted DEP (data execution prevention), one of the few significant security [...]
My good buddy Preston Gralla would have it that “Windows doesn’t just dominate the desktop, but the server market as well.” Eh… I don’t think so.
For proof, Gralla points to the latest IDC (International Data Corporation’) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. This report covers the worldwide server market’s factory revenue.
What Gralla and other people miss is [...]
Forgive me for sounding like a broken record, but yet another Internet Explorer security hole has been revealed. Is there no end to the ways that IE can be broken into? It doesn’t look like it!
In this latest flaw, there’s an unpatched bug in VBScript that hackers can use to drop malware on 32-bit Windows [...]
I’m no Windows fan. But, I use Windows 7 every day and I’ve deployed it on several dozen PCs and I’ve never seen Windows 7 misuse memory like Devil Mountain Software’s claims that it does.
While it’s doubtlessly true that, as Craig Barth, Devil Mountain’s CTO, is reported to have claimed, that “Everyone thinks that they’re [...]
More than a week after Microsoft released an XP patch that seemed to cause BSODs (Blue Screen of Death), Microsoft announced that the immediate cause was the Alureon rootkit. Fair enough, but what about the 17-year old Windows security hole that the rootkit was exploiting?
I mean, come on. This bug dates back to 1993 when [...]
