Windows 7 Kernel Feature Improves Securi...
Posted by richard in Windows 7 News on 05 29th, 2009 | 2 Comments
The Windows 7 kernel has a new feature called “Safe Unlinking”, to help increase security and prevent vulnerabilities known as pool overrun attacks. This will make the experience of using Windows 7 faster, more reliable and above all, safer by making it harder for people to launch these...
Is Windows 7’s UAC still insecure?...
Posted by Al in Windows 7 News on 05 16th, 2009 | 5 Comments
Microsoft made some changes to UAC after the Windows community discovered a huge security flaw that allowed the UAC setting to be changed without the user knowing at all. These changes are applied in Windows 7 RC. But the guys over at OSNews still believe that UAC is insecure.
In order to decrease the...
Microsoft tweaks Autoplay in Windows 7 t...
Posted by Al in Windows 7 News on 04 29th, 2009 | 6 Comments
Malware such as Conficker worms has had Microsoft reevaluating how Windows 7 addresses such security issues. To tighten security, Microsoft has made changes to the way Autoplay works in Windows 7.
Before the change, malware could easily trick users into installing it
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Security research team find unfixable Wi...
Posted by Al in Windows 7 News on 04 24th, 2009 | 25 Comments
Security researches Vipin Kumar and Nitin Kumar announced at the Hack in the Box security conference that they have uncovered a design problem in Windows 7, allowing them to hack right into the operating system. The hackers claim that they can gain control of a Windows 7 computer during the boot up process...
Microsoft says Vista and Windows 7 are o...
Posted by Al in Windows 7 News on 04 13th, 2009 | 9 Comments
Windows generally has a lesser reputation in terms of security when put up against Linux and Apple. But this didn’t stop Microsoft’s chief operating officer Kevin Turner, from making this daring statement at the Midmarket CIO Summit:
Vista today, post-Service Pack 2, which is now in the marketplace,...
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