Tag archive: Tavis Ormandy

Last month, a Google engineer disclosed a security flaw in Windows XP'S Help and Support Center software that can potentially enables attackers to download malicious software and effectively take over a computer, searching it for sensitive information, turning it into a spam zombie, or simply have it continually pull down more malware from the Internet. The bug was disclosed to the public on June 10, and Microsoft says at first the only… 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