Vista Hackers Get Busy

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's long-awaited Windows Vista release Thursday for business customers will get more than just the passing attention of network administrators. That's because hackers will be eagerly waiting to do what hackers do best: start some mischief." Some folks on the Black Hat set got a sneak peek at Vista earlier this year, so they've had time to prepare.

Re:The most retarded story ever?

[Anonymous Poodle]

Yeah, hacking a beta would lose you style points . . . . .

It's Starting Already...

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't even have the operating system installed and I'm worrying about the hackers and the virus already.

Re:The most retarded story ever?

[quakeroatz]

That right! First we'll all drop $300 on Vista, crack it, that will show them!!

Wait....

Re:Outcome is Predetermined

[RAMMS+EIN]

``I give the first verified Vista exploit 90 days from the day they ship to consumers.''

Is that because it takes them 187 days to verify it?

I saw a long line of these guys at compusa

[Anonymous Coward]

They were all standing around with their tents in their black hats waiting to crack stuff and make keygens and shit. I asked why they were waiting in line when they could have had the RTM weeks ago on Usenet? They replied, "What's Usenet?" Those black hats must really fuck with the circulation in your head. I wonder if Slashdot editors wear black hats.

Re:Hack WGA First

[Anonymous Coward]

have gotten bored to tears trying to figure out something fun to do with it.

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null

Re:The most retarded story ever?

[Asztal_]

I'm sure someone has managed not only to circumvent WGA, but r00t Microsoft's WGA servers and set the Administrator account's screensaver to a marquee: "Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all."

Re:Hack WGA First

[Ajehals]

Is this the game where you have to count how many seconds it takes for /dev/null to fill up? Im up to 6 already!!! :)

Re:Hack WGA First

[pallmall1]

Hell, make it deny everyone.

What are you trying to do, kill the spam industry?

Re:Always a game

[hollywoodb]

puzzle game ... closed, hidden, and exciting to find

Isn't that the credo of Windows users?

"6 months running, don't know what the hell is happening, time for (another) reinstall!"

Re:Helping Hacker Culture Grow

[Anonymous Coward]

To 99.9999% of the world, Hacker == Cracker == bad person

That's gay.

Re:Hack WGA First

[kimvette]

My backup archive server NEVER runs out of space. I've been archiving old backups to /dev/null weekly for four years now. It is amazingly efficient.

Re:Helping Hacker Culture Grow

[badboy_tw2002]

You mean REALLY liking computers won't turn my hair blue and introduce me to a world of leather clad babes and techno music? I thought I just wasn't using mine enough. This is disappointing.

Yeah, I don't really understand why people get mad at "hacker == cracker". They're mislabled as badboys. You wouldn't want them mislabeling you as fat lonely nerds who live in their....

Wait.

Shit.

Re:Hack WGA First

[Redlazer]

I did the same, but then i ended up saying to myself "Now what do i do?"

But, much like someone above said, to each his own. I like playing games, and most games are not available for Linux. Dont get me wrong, Linux is fantastic, but it just lacks that ease of use and get up and go that Windows has. And yes, the WGA thing does keep me up at night, staring at my computer, expecting it to try and kill me in my sleep. And then take my wallet.

-Red

The hack I'm waiting to see

[gbulmash]

I'm waiting to see a worm that exploits a vulnerability to execute code and does the following:

• Searches the windows registry to identify your network card and downloads the proper network driver and a basic kernel.
  
  
• Overwrites the MBR so that the next time you restart your PC a bootloader loads the kernel and a network driver, begins an unattended install of Linux, and sets the bootloader to boot into Linux by default.
  
  
• Does NOT overwrite or reformat the Windows partition, but instead mounts it so you can get access to all the files in your Windows partition from Linux.
  
  
• Runs a little "You now have Linux. Let us show you why you should keep it" demo at startup.

Then the interesting thing would be to see how many people actually just keep Linux. :-)

- Greg

Re:wtf bs

[HeadlessNotAHorseman]

I've had vista for nigh on seventy years, and I had to walk backwards up a hill for forty miles at 4am every day to use it! And we didn't have none of those fancy computers to run it on, we had to manipulate the bits with our fingers, in the snow, without gloves on!

Re:wtf bs

[Dunbal]

we had to manipulate the bits with our fingers, in the snow, without gloves on!

      You had FINGERS? You lucky dog. We used to sit around at night, in the freezing cold, dreaming about what it would be like to have fingers...

THE most secure version of Windows, ever?

[gelfling]

Mercy me I can't imagine there will be any vulnerabilities at all in this newest highest priced, longest to develop & release version of Microsoft's ratio sum ultra of enterprise operating systems. And even if there are and someone exploits them that would just be unfair and mean. I'm sure I wouldn't want to know about any exploits in this the most critical and hyped version of Microsoft Windows.

Re:The most retarded story ever?

[The Great Pretender]

They should have released Vista during NASCAR season, then the crackers would've been too distracted to mess with it.

Re:The most retarded story ever?

[ysegalov]

Also, by changing three files in Vista, you can trick it to think it is Win9x, and use 50 times less memory than it uses otherwise.

Re:The hack I'm waiting to see

[Milton Waddams]

Woah, this comment is even more retarded than your first one.

Re:The hack I'm waiting to see

[skinfitz]

Runs a little "You now have Linux. Let us show you why you should keep it" demo at startup.

See that's where your idea falls down - that would require artistic and creative skill along with the ability to - heaven forbid - document something.

Skills that most programmers simply do not posess, unless you are talking about making ASCII porn pictures of anime characters, but I don't think that's going to sell Linux to the average Windows user.

Re:The most retarded story ever?

[Fred_A]

Really ? Hmmm. I can't help but wonder if my coasters would look better with a 0 Day vista on them.