Funny quote : “The copies available for download are not final code and users should avoid unauthorized copies which could be incomplete or tampered. This unauthorized download relies on the use of pre-RTM [release-to-manufacture] activation keys that will be blocked using Microsoft’s Software Protection Platform. Consequently, these downloads will be of limited value,” the statement said. Are they suggesting that users wait for the complete version before downloading illegal copies? Probably not, but a small chuckle nonetheless. “Microsoft is happy that customers are eager to begin using Windows Vista,” the company said.
Year: 2006
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Trying looking online to find some good security news, come on…I dare you. That’s what I did today – as it is a somewhat slow news day. You know the old saying, “lead by example,” well that’s hard to do for the public if there aren’t many good examples. Oh well, I suppose, Man Doesn’t Have Identity Stolen because he Patched Windows doesn’t make for interesting reading…
Bruce Schneier has a blog post about attacking bank-card PINs. Basically, the paper describes an inherent flaw with the way ATM PINs are encrypted and transmitted on the international financial networks, making them vulnerable to attack from malicious insiders in a bank. Just the fact that there are standalone ATMs in places like bus stations, seedy bars, and convenience stores worries me. Any bank in the whole ATM network could be the weak link.
…have been cracked (in less than 48 hours I might add ).
To make up for the slow progress on SecurityMusings recently, here’s one mega-post with bunches of links. First off, PGP is 15 years old. The technology that started to put security and crypto into the average user’s hands has reached a pretty significant milestone, and deserves some recognition. Next is not specifically security related — it is how much of an IT disaster the electronic health records management system at Kaiser is. Aside from the problems of downtime and amazingly high ($4B) cost, it seems that it’s beginning to affect patient care, which is a Very Bad Thing. Although we don’t work with Kaiser (yet), we have dabbled in EHR for other customers. The EHR groups and vendors suffer from[…]
Even the Starship Enterprise’s computers were broken into by countless aliens. (Quite easily I might add, complete compromise of a starship? Must be running Windows 98). So I won’t blow this comment out of proportion, I think that it was a bit taken out of context: During a telephone conference with reporters yesterday, outgoing Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin, while touting the new security features of Windows Vista, which was released to manufacturing yesterday, told a reporter that the system’s new lockdown features are so capable and thorough that he was comfortable with his own seven-year-old son using Vista without antivirus software installed. Just because you’ve added some new security features (which aren’t out in the public quite yet – give[…]