Vista cracked
Briefly, I worked for Microsoft's Security Business Unit (or whatever it was called). Trying to sell security software made by Microsoft -- even next gen stuff -- was a lot of bullshit spinning. So it's kind of nice to see some of it start to UN-SPIN in the Vista world.
Microsoft is furious after a security outfit Authentium worked out a way of disabling one of the security features on Vista.
According to PC Magazine, Authentium has managed to switch off Vole's PatchGuard software so that it could install its own security systems.
Vole has vowed to work quickly to make sure that Authentium's hack does not work. It said it would be doing this for the good of the user as those who do not use PatchGuard could find themselves vulnerable to attack.
However all this puts Microsoft in a strategic position it does not want to be. In the past, Vole only had to worry about hackers and crackers, now it appears that legitimate security companies are now going to start looking for holes in which they can stick their software.
Not only that, any move that Microsoft makes to close those holes used by legitimate security companies are going to attract the attention of anti-trust regulators. Those in the EU are particularly concerned that Vole is using its dominance of the operating system market to shut out rival security vendors.
The move by Authentium is a shot over the bows of the Mighty Vole as a warning of what the software giant might be letting itself in for if it does not let them into Vista.
By Nick Farrell: Thursday 26 October 2006, 08:12
Microsoft is furious after a security outfit Authentium worked out a way of disabling one of the security features on Vista.
According to PC Magazine, Authentium has managed to switch off Vole's PatchGuard software so that it could install its own security systems.
Vole has vowed to work quickly to make sure that Authentium's hack does not work. It said it would be doing this for the good of the user as those who do not use PatchGuard could find themselves vulnerable to attack.
However all this puts Microsoft in a strategic position it does not want to be. In the past, Vole only had to worry about hackers and crackers, now it appears that legitimate security companies are now going to start looking for holes in which they can stick their software.
Not only that, any move that Microsoft makes to close those holes used by legitimate security companies are going to attract the attention of anti-trust regulators. Those in the EU are particularly concerned that Vole is using its dominance of the operating system market to shut out rival security vendors.
The move by Authentium is a shot over the bows of the Mighty Vole as a warning of what the software giant might be letting itself in for if it does not let them into Vista.
By Nick Farrell: Thursday 26 October 2006, 08:12
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