I blogged a few days ago regarding how the windows Vista OS got hacked at the Black Hat conference by bypassing the kernal sercurity signature settings. Symantec have been carrying out various security tests of Vista and in an article posted by vunet states how Symantec are unhappy about the kernal being locked in such a way. Obviously this won’t allow Symantec products to tightly integrate as much as they would like. Symentec will also be worried about M$ creating products similar which compete.
He alleged that Microsoft is forcing end users to only use solutions offered or allowed by the software vendor, thereby stifling competition and innovation in the security industry.
“In the end, a less secure internet will result and both consumers and enterprises will find themselves more vulnerable to cyber attack,” Friedrichs concluded.
A lot of new code is being used in Vista, and Steve Gibson raised concerns in his security now podcast about how insecure the network stack is. Luckily Vista still is in beta but is causing a fair amount of concern.
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