Smile. It's our turn to have that evil grin, having noticed that an entire
operating system is in jeopardy. To all the recent IEtrolls, here is the
situation:
http://tinyurl.com/czurv
"The flaw is not wormable but allows for the remote execution (of code)
with some level of end-user intervention," said Mike Puterbaugh,
eEye's senior director of product marketing.
Time to revise that user privileges machanism, don't you think? There was an
announcement some months ago about a *nix-like access control. Maybe
Microsoft should worry about SHA1 once they have managed to keep away
scripting that penetrates underneath an authentication step.
Roy
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