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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
In the wake of my Windows 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...
 
Tags: windows vista, microsoft windows vista, microsoft windows, windows, sp2, vulnerabilities, fewer vulnerabilities, short paper, vulnerability report
 
 
 
 
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Download: Windows Vista One Year Vulnerability Report

2008-01-23 16:19:00 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
Windows 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...
 
Tags: windows, windows vista, security vulnerability profile, security, windows administrators significantly, systems red hat, predecessor, development process, process
 
 
 
 
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Is Vista hurting your business?

2008-09-23 13:19:17 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
I know Ive lost sales due to the frequent BSOD. And Im still waiting for Dell and Microsoft to make it right. Still waiting clipped from www.newsweek.com A Gloomy Vista for Microsoft For one thing, big corporationsMicrosofts bread and butterhave been slow to migrate from XP to Vista and need to be convinced that its now safe to make the...
 
Tags: vista, gloomy vista, lost sales due, vice president, microsoft, tech company, lilliputian systems, mouli ramani, frequent bsod
 
 
 
 
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Windows Server 2008 SP2, Vista SP2 on the Way

2008-10-13 06:59:08 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
Hat tip to Tweaking With Vishal for the reference to Neowin where franzon has found a KB article with very preliminary references to Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 . There isn't a lot of information in the KB article: Beta Information This article discusses a beta release of a Microsoft product. The...
 
Tags: sp2, windows server, beta information, information, release, product release notes, windows vista sp2, article, beta product files
 
 
 
 
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News Report on Non Vulnerability in Windows Vista

2008-11-20 18:41:16 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
 
Are editors so excited to use the headline Vulnerability in Windows Vista in their SEO URLs that they will have their reporters write a story on a non-issue IDG News has published a news report titled, Researchers find vulnerability in Windows Vista . The report says An Austrian security vendor has found a vulnerability in Windows Vista that it...
 
Tags: windows vista, vulnerability, news report, report, bug fix, bug, headline vulnerability, austrian security vendor, news outlets pick
 
 
 
 
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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
 
Interesting article over at LiquidMatrix this morning. I have not had a chance to ponder 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...
 
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