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August 28th, 2007

Vista Security Feature – Teredo Protocol Analysis

Teredo is a platform-independent protocol developed by Microsoft, which is enabled by default in Windows Vista. Teredo provides a way for nodes located behind an IPv4 NAT to connect to IPv6 nodes on the Internet. However, by tunneling IPv6 traffic over IPv4 UDP through the NAT and directly to the end node, Teredo raises some [...]

August 21st, 2007

Vista Security Claims Debunked – Figures Skewed

Ah more news about the insecurity of Vista and something we are all pretty aware of…the skewing of figures by Microsoft.
Microsoft apparently still hasn’t learned that counting vulnerabilities doesn’t establish some kind of ’security level’.
You can read the report here:

Vista 6 Month Vuln Report [PDF]
The Microsoft “researcher” claims that Windows Vista is exponentially less vulnerable [...]