Even before the Microsoft's latest OS is introduced in the Philippine market, a lone Canadian hacker has already announced that he has subverted a Windows Vista anti-copying technology.
Early version of Vista was also hacked during the Black Hat conference held August of last year. It was shown in the conference that it is possible to bypass security measures in 64-bit versions of Vista meant to prevent unsigned driver code from running. The bypass could allow the installation of malicious drivers--a serious threat, because they run at a low level in the operating system. The hack was immediately blocked by Microsoft.
Just this week Microsoft had already released the first patch for the system, designed to fix a flaw related to the processing of Windows Meta File images before the consumer version of Vista went on sale.
Last month, security firm Determina reported six vulnerabilities in Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 7 browser.
Expect more holes to appear over time.
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