“Following a week where no less than two security flaws were reported in Windows 7 which were officially dismissed and not constituting a vulnerability, it seems there has now been a rather huge change of mind at Microsoft and a frankly astonishing confession,” Davey Winder reports for iTWire.
After the disclosure of “two UAC related Windows 7 security flaws in a single week. You might think that Microsoft would take them seriously, very seriously indeed,” Winder reports. “Yet the initial response was one of total denial.”
“Having spent all week denying that there actually was a vulnerability at all, or indeed that the UAC implementation within Windows 7 presented any kind of security threat to users, Microsoft has just made an astonishing U-turn,” Winder reports.
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