Windows Vista Network Attack Surface Analysis: A Broad Overview

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Topic: Windows Vista

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We observed that Windows Vista hosts will not process unsolicited Neighbor Discovery replies. However it is still possible to ...

 

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Windows Vista Network Attack Surface Analysis: A Broad OverviewPage 1SYMANTEC ADVANCED THREAT RESEARCH1AbstractA prerelease version of Microsoft WindowsVista was examined to determine the external securityexposure and to identify how the networking components havechanged from previous versions of Microsoft Windows.Changes in the networking stack network services and coreprotocols are enumerated and their effect on the externalsecurity of the system is analyzed.Index TermsComputer network security Computersecurity Operating systems.I. INTRODUCTIONINDOWSVista is Microsofts much anticipated newclient operating system. When released it is due toreplace Windows XP as Microsofts premier desktopoperating system. Windows Vista represents a significantdeparture from previous Windows systems both in terms ofits emphasis on security and its many new features. Assecurity has grown in importance Microsoft has paidincreasingly more attention to it evidenced by thesignificant resource investment that has been made.Windows Vista provides Microsoft with its first opportunityto introduce security into the design process of the coreoperating system itself. Microsoft has also chosen WindowsVista as the platform on which to introduce many newlydeveloped technologies.The Windows Vista network stack is particularly interestingbecause many of its components are new. The TCP/IPnetwork stack itself has been rewritten and is one of Vistaslargest departures from previous versions of Windows. Thenew stack was written to allow easier maintenanceimportant new performance enhancements and improvedstability 30]. It integrates support for IPv6 and IPv4 into asingle network stack and provides IPv6 support in thedefault configuration for the first time in the history ofWindows. Many other new protocols are implemented andsupported in Vista either as part of the network stack or asseparate components of the Windows operating system.These new protocols support features such as topologydiscovery serverle ...

 

 

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