Vista the new more “secure” OS from Microsoft has a potentially serious flaw that was discovered one day after its release.
Vista’s speech recognition feature works so well it could potentially delete, move, rename files by a well constructed nefarious sound file in an email or website.
Microsoft has confirmed this is an “issue”. MS notes however that the exploit cant execute seriously dangerous system changes without bypassing the administrative privileges or bypass the UAC.
If you have no need for speech recognition, you may want to disable it until they sort this one out.
You can read more about this on ZDNet.
Microsoft confirms Vista Speech Recognition remote execution flaw by ZDNet‘s George Ou — After my initial reports on the first Vista Remote Exploit, a Microsoft spokesperson responded to me with the following message. Thanks for your patience as I looked into this. I heard back from the folks at the MSRC, and they let me know that Microsoft is investigating public reports of a possible vulnerability in Windows Vista’s […]
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