Researchers show how to take control of Windows 7
Windows 7 is still not out but IT researchers Vipin Kumar and Nitin Kumar have already found in it a very serious exploit. Apparaently the pair of researchers have managed to find a way to access all of the files on a windows 7 based machine while Windows is booting up. The consequences of this exploit are indeed very serious because this would mean that anyone would be able to open any kind of file including private user data files. Also, those who think that this will be fixed by the time Windows 7 is out will be immediately contradicted by the researches who claim that this exploit cannot be fixed because according to them this is a design problem! It must be noted that this exploit cannot be executed remotely and hence physical access to the machine is required. However, it seems that once the exploit is carried out it will be very difficult to detect!
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