Microsoft discloses security bugs in Vista Gadgets
Aug 16th, 2007 | By CentroN | Category: Microsoft, SecuritySphere: Related ContentMicrosoft’s August security patches, released today, provide a new chance to assess the company’s promise of higher security in Windows Vista. The company released six critical security bulletins, and Windows Vista is among the versions affected by three of them.
Two of the critical bulletins involve earlier Windows versions, but not Windows Vista, suggesting that Microsoft avoided those problems in the new operating system.
But one of the three bulletins with the lower ranking of “important” affects Windows Vista alone. And it’s an interesting one, dealing with RSS feeds and Windows Vista Gadgets. Here’s the executive summary: