Security Firm VUPEN Claims To Have Hacked Windows 8 and IE10 118
An anonymous reader writes "Windows 8 was released late last week, and already this week French security firm VUPEN says it has broken Microsoft's latest and greatest security features. The company claims it has developed a 0-day exploit for Windows 8 and IE10, by chaining multiple undisclosed flaws together."
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Re:Windows RT? (Score:4, Insightful)
I wonder if their hack could be used on Windows RT to gain low-level access to the system, allowing one to essentially jailbreak the thing and let one side-load apps on it. I'm not planning to buy a Windows RT - tablet and one of the reasons is exactly the fact that I am only allowed to install stuff from Windows Store; a fully-working jailbreak would atleast make the thing slightly more useful.
Why buy a closed device, when open devices like Googles Chromebook which is available cheaper and isn't locked. Excusing manufacturers for their abuse behaviour...and giving them money, never persuaded, and manufacturer to be more open.
Re:Windows RT? (Score:4, Insightful)
Windows RT is going to be hell its hard to find actuate reliable information about anything. From wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RT [wikipedia.org] it claims.
"Perhaps the biggest change is that Windows RT will only run applications that have been included in Microsoft's App store. This requires certification by Microsoft that they consider the application to be suitable."
and obviously
"Users will not have an option to disable UEFI secure boot on Windows RT systems. As a result, only operating systems that have been signed for secure boot by their developers can be installed"
Re:Windows RT? (Score:1, Insightful)
Why buy a closed device, when open devices like Googles Chromebook which is available cheaper and isn't locked. Excusing manufacturers for their abuse behaviour...and giving them money, never persuaded, and manufacturer to be more open.
Exchanging your control of the device for having every piece of information scanned, categorized, and resold by Google would be reason enough for someone to buy a Win RT tablet. The grass isn't always greener on the other side of the fence. The only difference between the grass is that different dogs shit on either side. I've flashed many different ROMs to my Kindle, I've owned a Playbook, I have a Linux netbook. Pretty much every OS sucks in it's own special way. If the only thing that sucks about WinRT is that it's "closed", then I'll take one.
Re:Hardly surprising, it's still a baby. (Score:5, Insightful)
It's sad to see that MS has dominated the market for so long that exploits seem accetable and it's insightful to claim this. Software should be well-written before you start charging for it. Period.
OpenBSD has only had 2 remote security holes in several dozen releases, in over 15 years. Why is it acceptable that something you pay for has had thousands more every release?
Re:Windows RT? (Score:4, Insightful)
Exchanging your control of the device for having every piece of information scanned, categorized, and resold by Google would be reason enough for someone to buy a Win RT tablet.
So Microsoft has stated they will guarantee full privacy of your info that is stored in SkyDrive?
If your going to pull the "grass isn't always greener" argument, then Microsoft still loses, as their device is more expensive, will everything else (their treatment of your data) the same.
Re:Windows RT? (Score:3, Insightful)
Exchanging your control of the device for having every piece of information scanned, categorized, and resold by Google would be reason enough for someone to buy a Win RT tablet
Well, gee, it's lucky Google doesn't scan, categorize and resell very piece of information on your device then, isn't it? FUD much?
Re:Windows RT? (Score:5, Insightful)
Well - that was the main complaint about Linux.
And now -using windows- it is suddenly a no-brainer?
Wow... just wow!