For the sake of argument, and in their defense, none of yesterday's vulnerabilities apply to IE8, and the IE vulnerabilities all exploit in the context of the logged-in user which, in Vista, is likely to be less-privileged (unless the user/admin is a doofus)
Larry Seltzer eWEEK.com Security Center Editor http://security.eweek.com/ http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/ Contributing Editor, PC Magazine [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Lanstein Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 3:50 PM To: funsec Subject: Re: [funsec] Microsoft announce most secure OS on the planet Takes some chutzpah to put out a release like that when they knew this was coming: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS09-014.mspx quispiam lepidus wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Larry Seltzer <[email protected]> wrote: >> I guess it was just a typo, but in fact Vista is at SP1 >> >> Larry Seltzer >> eWEEK.com Security Center Editor >> http://security.eweek.com/ >> http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/ >> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine >> [email protected] >> >> > I guess that explains how Vista SP2 is the most secure OS on the planet ;) > > Vista SP2 is at the RC (release candidate) stage atm. > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > -- Regards, Alex Lanstein Network/Systems Architect FireEye, Inc. http://blog.fireeye.com _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
