A hacker picking apart the security model of Microsoft’s brand new Windows Server 2008 has found serious design weaknesses that render some of the product’s new security protections "useless."
Cesar Cerrudo, founder and CEO of Argeniss Information Security, inParana, Argentina, says the weaknesses could lead to privilegeescalation attacks opens the door for a skilled hacker to take completecontrol of the operating system.
"[We found] from design issues that were not identified by Microsoftengineers during the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), and allowsaccounts commonly used by Windows services — NETWORK SERVICE and LOCALSERVICE — to bypass new Windows services protection mechanisms andelevate privileges, Cerrudo explained.
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