Tag archive: MS-DOS

Earlier this month, Microsoft released a patch for its entire supported line of Windows operating systems—that'd be Windows 2000 all the way through Windows 7—which included a fix for a security vulnerability that had been lurking in its Virtual DOS Machine for some 17 years—a record by almost any standard. The problem was that the security update led to problems on some Windows XP machines: users would install the… Read More

Earlier this week, Microsoft rolled out a new series of security updates and bug fixes for its Windows operating systems: the updates included MS10-015 intended to patch a 17-year-old vulnerability in Microsoft Windows' support for 16-bit MS-DOS applications that was recently revealed by a Google security researcher. There's just one little problem: for some Windows XP users, the patch seems to be causing repeated reboot and even… Read More

Security researchers—and, of course, cybercriminals, attachers, and maybe even governments—are always looking for new ways to break into Microsoft Windows, since it's long-established itself and the lowest common denominator of operating systems. Sometimes, these research efforts uncover bugs that have been round for a long time, but Google security engineer Tavis Ormandy may have taken the cake: he found a security hole in… Read More