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Windows Vista vs Windows XP SP2 Vulnerability Report 2007

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2008-05-14 22:50:00 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...Vista One Year Vulnerability Report , I have received many questions regarding the current vulnerability record of Windows Vista as compares with Windows XP SP2 This short paper is a compilation of vulnerability data for Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows XP SP2 for calendar year 2007 and a brief analysis to see if any benefit is...
 
Tags: windows vista, microsoft windows vista, microsoft windows, windows, sp2, vulnerabilities, fewer vulnerabilities, short paper, vulnerability report
 
 
 
 
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Vista SP1 Goes To Manufacturing

2008-02-04 11:18:17 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...Vista blog, that they have released Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista to manufacturing . Users will not be able to download SP1 until mid-March, as the company is trying to make it available about the time that new systems with SP1 will be available in stores. This is the same time frame in which it will be available through the Microsoft...
 
Tags: sp1, windows vista blog, windows vista, vista sp1, microsoft download center, download center, windows, download sp1, device drivers
 
 
 
 
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Vista SP1 Goes to Manufacturing

2008-02-04 11:18:17 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...Vista blog, that it has released Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista to manufacturing . Users will not be able to download SP1 until mid-March, as the company is trying to make it available about the time that new systems with SP1 will be available in stores. This is the same time frame in which it will be available through the Microsoft...
 
Tags: sp1, windows vista blog, windows vista, vista sp1, microsoft download center, download center, windows, download sp1, device drivers
 
 
 
 
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Download: Windows Vista One Year Vulnerability Report

2008-01-23 16:19:00 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
...Vista shipped to business customers on the last day of November 2006, so the end of November 2007 marks the one year anniversary for supported production use of the product This paper analyzes the vulnerability disclosures and security updates for the first year of Windows Vista and looks at it in the context of its predecessor, Windows XP,...
 
Tags: windows, windows vista, security vulnerability profile, security, windows administrators significantly, systems red hat, predecessor, development process, process
 
 
 
 
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A Closer Look: Beta Vista Service Pack 1

2008-01-24 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473a60 in Network World on Security
 
With dissatisfaction over the Vista operating system persistent, can Microsoft right the OS's wrongs with its upcoming Vista service pack
 
Tags: vista service pack, vista, system persistent, dissatisfaction, wrongs, microsoft
 
 
 
 
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Vista Service Pack 1: 573 fixes in limbo

2008-03-25 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b0c9a4 in Network World on Security
 
Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista is (almost) ready for prime time. SP1 contains a whopping 573 bug fixes and patches that have accumulated since Vista first shipped in early 2007, plus some performance improvements. I advise you to get it--but only after the wrinkles are ironed out
 
Tags: vista, service pack, windows vista, performance improvements, bug fixes, prime time, sp1, advise, wrinkles
 
 
 
 
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Blame for Vista?

2008-05-19 14:25:57 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...Vista as a preventer of Malware yet, as Im still fighting the BSODs. Although since the SP update 9 days ago, I havent had one. Maybe its fixed clipped from www.liquidmatrix.org New Strategy, Blame The Users clipped from www.liquidmatrix.org Software giant Microsoft has claimed user complacency is to blame for malware infections, and...
 
Tags: vista, blame, liquidmatrix, malware infections, malware, software giant microsoft, ponder vista, days ago, org
 
 
 
 
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Vista laid low by new malware figures

2008-05-19 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b27380 in Network World on Security
 
It looks as if Vista's reputation for improved security could be heading for the pages of history. PC Tools has renewed last week's attack on the platform with new figures that appear to back up its claim that Vista is almost as vulnerable as its predecessors
 
Tags: vista, figures, history, attack, week, tools, reputation, claim, predecessors
 
 
 
 
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Using Data Execution Prevention (DEP) in Windows XP and Vista: Fighting back against buffer overflows and memory corruption

2008-06-09 00:36:29 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...Vista: Fighting back against buffer overflows and memory corruption Ive recently become interested in measures that modern CPUs can take to prevent various types of memory corruption attacks. One such feature is the NX bit (as AMD calls it, XD is Intels term), which allows for memory pages to me marked as not executable. Microsoft Windows...
 
Tags: dep, data execution prevention, memory corruption, windows, configure dep protection, configure, memory corruption attacks, vista, buffer overflows