The dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) has a little brother: the blacK Screen of Death (KSoD). UK-based security firm Prevx initially claimed it is caused by a recent patch from Microsoft, but reports of similar issues months before that patch's release and denial by Microsoft itself leave the issue unexplained.
Microsoft has confirmed last week's announcement of a vulnerability in the Server Message Block protocol affecting machines running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
Prior to the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft always insisted on the increased security that their new Operating System would bring to users. It did not meet the expectations, while the numbers shown in the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report are encouraging (see also article here). Now, all the hype is about Windows 7 and how it will be much more secure. Last week, the Sophos team plublished the results of their analysis of 7's security.
They can do wonderful products and they can be real pain. I hate being in the position of saying to my customer the provider I used to publish their software does not provide the requested option, specially when it comes to simple statistics. When you publish an iOS app on the App Store, it is impossible to know the number of app downloads before the last 26 weeks.
Openness is loved by android users, but the idea spreads fast into the Malware coders mind. The DroidDream app recently took Google by surprise: the app simply wipes off your phone, takes your data.