Tag archive: Windows NT

Researcher Finds 17 Year-Old Windows Vulnerability…in MS-DOS

February 5, 2010 |

Computing

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