Microsoft engineers spend Thanksgiving holidays writing patch.
During the
Kiwicon
conference earlier this month, ethical hacker Beau Butler from New Zealand disclosed a design flaw in
Windows
that could potentially affect millions of users. Said flaw seems to have been first discovered and, apparently, fixed more than five years ago, but this fix has turned out to be only partially effective, Australian newspaper
The Age
reports
.
A
Microsoft
spokesman confirmed that this is a serious issue and asked Butler and
The Age
not to disclose details of the flaw while
Microsoft
‘s security team is working on a fix. The vulnerability is said to occur in all versions of
Windows
, including
Vista
, and could lead to hackers taking over many PCs with a single attack. However, while Butler found more than 160.000 computers in New Zealand to be vulnerable, the flaw is reported to only affect computers in countries outside the United States.
Posted on 26 November 2007 by
Virus Bulletin
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