Can Vista's Safeguards Be Easily Bypassed?

At this week's Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, researchers Mark Dowd and Alexander Sotirov planned to unveil a new technique that takes advantage of the way Internet Explorer handles active scripting and .NET objects in the Vista operating system. According to a story first reported by SearchSecurity, the two have been able to bypass Vista's memory protection safeguards and load malicious content into any location on a victim's PC. It appears that the attacks exploit Vista's current architecture along with Microsoft's protection methods and have nothing to do with any newly discovered vulnerabilities in either the browser or the OS. It will be interesting to see further details on this research as well as what Microsoft's response will be. Stay tuned...