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Sunday, October 22, 2006

Vista remains insecure, argues Bill Pill creator

At first glance it should be good news, after all it would appear that Microsoft has plugged a hole that left the claims of Vista being highly secure shot to pieces. Nonetheless, the security researcher who demonstrated the original Blue Pill exploit at both SyScan 06 in Singapore and the Black Hat briefings in Las Vegas earlier in the year, Joanna Rutkowska, has hit back with a warning that the methodology used by Microsoft to block her pagefile exploit is itself fundamentally flawed and insecure.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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