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During the third day of the “PWN TO OWN” event, a contest of hackers determined to break systems at CanSecWest, Windows Vista was compromised from a Flash flaw.The contest, which saw a MacBook Air get hacked on Thursday, relaxed the rules even further. On the first day of the contest, only the operating system could be targeted, but on the second day that was expanded to include standard applications. An undisclosed Safari flaw led to the MacBook Air’s downfall through the OS X operating system.
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Speaking at a round-table in London on Wednesday, John Curran, director of the Windows group for Microsoft in the UK, said: “First and foremost, businesses like Vista for security”. The operating system (OS) “has, since its launch, been the safest operating system on the market with the fewest vulnerabilities of any OS available,” he added.
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One of the Microsoft critical updates for next Tuesday affects every version of the Windows operating system, including Windows XP, Windows Server 2008 and Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista. “That one has to be a pretty bad bug to be critical across the board like that,” said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Network Security Inc. “I would have expected a drop in criticality for Vista SP1, and most certainly in Server 2008. Something should have mitigated the vulnerability.”
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IT directors have estimated that they could save hundreds of thousands of pounds through energy saving by using the green features in Windows Vista. Adrian Davey, head of IT at Tube Lines, said, “Our planned upgrade onto Windows Vista had to be economically efficient. With 2,500 seats, we estimate we would save £40 to £50 in terms of power savings.” Over the life of PCs, Davey said this would equate to savings worth half a million pounds.
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