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Microsoft’s CAPTCHA successfully broken
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| ...Yan and Ahmad Salah El Ahmad, at the School of Computing Science,
| Newcastle University, England recently Microsoft’s CAPTCHA published a
| research paper entitled “A Low-cost Attack on a Microsoft CAPTCHA“,
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1232&tag=nl.e550
Recent:
Students crack Microsoft CardSpace
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| Students at the Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany, say they have found a way
| to steal security tokens in Microsoft's new CardSpace authentication
| framework. Attackers can apparently get access to protected, encrypted user
| data – such as passwords, credit card numbers, and delivery addresses – when
| they are transmitted.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/108731/from/rss09
Vista Called as Vulnerable as Predecessors
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| 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.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146281/vista_called_as_vulnerable_as_predecessors.html
Vista security credentials tarnished in malware survey
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| "[Vista]has been hailed by Microsoft as the most secure version of Windows to
| date. However, recent research conducted with statistics from over 1.4
| million computers within the ThreatFire community has shown that Windows
| Vista is more susceptible to malware than the eight year old Windows 2000
| operating system, and only 37 per cent more secure than Windows XP," said
| Simon Clausen, chief exec at PC Tools.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/09/win_malware_survey/
Vista as Insecure as Windows 2000
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145681/vista_as_insecure_as_windows_2000.html
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