BlackHat shows off yet more holes

As conference highlights security issues, MS dares hackers to find more.

A tidal wave of new security flaws, and vectors for hacking and malware, has gushed out of the

BlackHat

conference, held last week in Las Vegas. Issues raised include the potential for

exploiting RSS feeds

, problems with


Vista

device drivers and AMD64 virtualisation

, holes in


Cisco

firewalls

, and leaks from


Xerox

printers

. Meanwhile Microsoft has

challenged hackers

to break into

Vista

, to highlight security problems.

Posted on 07 August 2006 by

Virus Bulletin