OCRegister blog: Gadgetress – post: Hacking Vista: Easier than you’d think

I thought I would post this for any of the non-techies that happen across my site. In case you’re thinking about upgrading to Windows Vista because it’s more secure, you might want to take a look at the video on the link above. The guys at eEye show just how easy it is to use the old trojan horse tactic to hack a computer running the latest OS from Redmond. In this case the attackers use an attack script disguised as a word document to take control of the target computer. I do have to wonder if UAC was enabled on the example target, but either way it shows what is still the largest vulnerability on any computer. It’s the human behind the keyboard. This is the critical piece of information that Tamara C. misses on her blog. That’s one security problem not easily fixed by software.