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https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/bg-p/windows_vista Windows Vista Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:31:16 GMT windows_vista 2009-01-06T10:31:16Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/Microsoft-Patch-Tuesday-for-December/ba-p/306245 Hello, and welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch releases. Microsoft released seven bulletins this month, covering a total of eleven vulnerabilities. Nine of the vulnerabilities affect Microsoft Vista either directly or through Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/Microsoft-Patch-Tuesday-for-December/ba-p/306245 Robert Keith 2007-12-11T08:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/Who-Left-the-Tunnel-Door-Open-in-Windows-Firewall-for-Vista/ba-p/306243 Symantec Security Advisory SYMSA-2007-005[1] is now available. This covers a Teredo-related vulnerability in the Vista version of Windows Firewall (BID 24779, CVE-2007-3038). (To be clear, this vulnerability is not connected to any of the nine Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/Who-Left-the-Tunnel-Door-Open-in-Windows-Firewall-for-Vista/ba-p/306243 Jim Hoagland 2007-07-10T07:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/Microsoft-Patch-Day-July-2007/ba-p/306244 This month's Microsoft patch release includes six bulletins, addressing 12 vulnerabilities in common client and server software, including four in a popular development environment. Topping the heap in terms of urgency is a remotely exploitable, Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/Microsoft-Patch-Day-July-2007/ba-p/306244 Ben Greenbaum 2007-07-10T07:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/Microsoft-s-Inaccurate-Teredo-Documentation-and-Other-Vista-CVEs/ba-p/306242 Last week the CVE project issued nine new CVEs for Vista, numbered CVE-2007-1527 through CVE-2007-1535. While these CVEs were directly based on our findings in Windows Vista Network Attack Surface Analysis[1] report (released as a Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/Microsoft-s-Inaccurate-Teredo-Documentation-and-Other-Vista-CVEs/ba-p/306242 Jim Hoagland 2007-04-03T07:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/Code-Signing-and-UAC-It-Just-Gets-Better/ba-p/306241 Code Signing and UAC in Windows Vista have a relationship that should not be underestimated. Code Signing allows UAC to provide a user with the details of an application's publisher and, thus, permits the user Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/Code-Signing-and-UAC-It-Just-Gets-Better/ba-p/306241 Ollie Whitehouse 2007-03-12T07:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/Windows-Vista-Network-Attack-Surface-Analysis-An-Update/ba-p/306240 Greetings. For the last four months we have been busy taking a look at the release (RTM) version of Windows Vista in an effort to update our Windows Vista Network Attack Surface Analysis report from Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/Windows-Vista-Network-Attack-Surface-Analysis-An-Update/ba-p/306240 Jim Hoagland 2007-03-07T08:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/The-Impact-of-Malicious-Code-on-Windows-Vista/ba-p/306239 The media surrounding the effectiveness of Windows Vista's new security features has (in my opinion) just begun. Microsoft's reach is well beyond that of any other software vendor in the world, and with this achievement Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/The-Impact-of-Malicious-Code-on-Windows-Vista/ba-p/306239 Orlando Padilla 2007-03-02T08:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/GS-and-Windows-Vista/ba-p/306237 When I started this project, I had one goal in mind – to understand which binaries in Windows Vista were not /GS compiled. While this may seem rather simple on the surface, as I started Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/GS-and-Windows-Vista/ba-p/306237 Ollie Whitehouse 2007-03-01T08:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/ASLR-in-Windows-Vista/ba-p/306238 ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) is one of the corner stones of Windows Vista and its enhanced security posture. ASLR works on the basis that it will move an application and its associated memory around, Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/ASLR-in-Windows-Vista/ba-p/306238 Ollie Whitehouse 2007-03-01T08:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/Vista-Research-Overview/ba-p/306236 Last July, I discussed how Windows Vista™ was one of the most important technologies that we would see in 2007. Last year, Symantec Advanced Threat Research released four research papers on the then beta version Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/Vista-Research-Overview/ba-p/306236 Oliver Friedrichs 2007-02-28T08:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/An-Example-of-Why-UAC-Prompts-in-Vista-Can-t-Always-Be-Trusted/ba-p/306234 People who have been following the not unexpected initial wave of security research with regards to Windows Vista will have seen a few informative blog posts recently. First, in a blog titled "Running Vista Every Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/An-Example-of-Why-UAC-Prompts-in-Vista-Can-t-Always-Be-Trusted/ba-p/306234 Ollie Whitehouse 2007-02-20T08:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/Computer-Initiate-Self-Destruct-Sequence/ba-p/306233 There has been much talk recently about the launch of Windows Vista, and one feature in particular: Speech Recognition. Speech Recognition allows the user to dictate arbitrary text to the computer (a letter for example) Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Windows-Vista/Computer-Initiate-Self-Destruct-Sequence/ba-p/306233 James O'Connor 2007-02-16T08:00:00Z