In Windows 7, Microsoft designed UAC to control the elevated "administrator" privilege that is so dangerous from an IT security perspective. Here's what you should know about Windows 7 UAC ...

A pair of Windows bloggers posted more proof-of-concept code today that subverts an important security feature of Windows 7, a problem that Microsoft has known about for months and that its ...

But the way that the Windows 7 UAC "improvements" have been made completely exempts Microsoft's developers from having to do that work themselves. With Windows 7, it's one rule for Redmond ...

Windows Vista doesn't have a problem, because it doesn't trust any programs; the problems are purely due to the changes Microsoft has made to UAC in the name of convenience in Windows 7 ...

Even though the gaping breach in Windows 7‘s User Account Control feature seems, to all eyes, like a pretty easy fix, Microsoft appears to be in denial mode with MS expert Mary Jo Foley. https ...

If you've been keeping up with Windows 7 news, you know one of the selling points is a less annoying UAC system—so the 7 Tutorials blog set out to illustrate what was actually changed.

More info: On October 22nd, we settled in at SophosLabs and loaded a full release copy of Windows 7 on a clean machine. We configured it to follow the system defaults for User Account Control (UAC ...

Reacting to intense criticism of an important security feature in Windows 7, Microsoft Corp. Thursday said it will change the behavior of User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 7’s release ...

Is UAC in Windows 7 broken? That’s what some IT Windows community agitators are saying. They claim that one of the most critical system settings in all of Windows 7 — the on/off switch for UAC ...

Windows bloggers warn that attackers can use one of several pre-approved apps to fool Windows 7 into giving a malicious payload full administrative rights Topics Spotlight: AI in Enterprise ...

Reacting to intense criticism of an important security feature in Windows 7, Microsoft Thursday said it will change the behavior of User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 7's release candidate.

A pair of Windows bloggers posted more proof-of-concept code today that subverts an important security feature of Windows 7 , a problem Microsoft knew about as long ago as last October and which ...