Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The word is that after throwing its new software creation Windows Vista at the mercy of some of the foremost security experts in the world, Microsoft witnessed its newborn baby get hacked. However, at a conference like Black Hat, where vulnerabilities are demonstrated in virtually everything from Mac OS X to Linksys routers, there should be no shame for the folks at Redmond.
In fact the Polish security researcher who demonstrated how to perform
the dastardly deed on Vista admitted that she had to perform the hack
in higher privileged administrator mode rather than the lower
privileged user account control. However, she did also seem to indicate
that the pop-up security boxes could simply entice some users to
elevate their privileges in order to perform certain tasks and thus
open themselves to a hack attack.
Windows watchers have pointed to the myriad of security pop-up boxes in
Vista that threaten to assail users who wish obtain the necessary
privileges to make changes to their configurations as a weakness in
system. Some have hinted that pop-up box fatigue may tempt users to
simply click accept without questioning what they're actually doing in
order to elevate their privileges.
Being hacked aside, the fact that Microsoft has been prepared to openly
put Vista to the test at Black Hat shows a level of confidence in the
security of its product that was missing from all previous versions of
Windows. The reaction has been mixed but certainly not all bad.
The question that remains, however, is whether Microsoft will take away
the lessons learned from Black Hat and further refine the product. If
so, what does this do to the release schedule?
David Bass
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