Info Pioneer

Guess what? A Google security researcher has uncovered a potential security vulnerability that dates all the way back to the original Windows NT released in 1993. Security researchers—and, of course, cybercriminals, attachers, and maybe even governments—are always looking for new ways to break into Microsoft Windows, since it’s long-established itself and the lowest common denominator of operating systems. Sometimes, these research efforts uncover bugs that have been round for a long time, but Google security engineer Tavis Ormandy may have taken the cake: he found a security hole in Windows that’s so old it could be graduating from high school this year . The bug impacts all versions of Windows from the brand-new Windows 7 all the way back to Windows NT 3.1, which originally shipped in 1993. The issue is in the Virtual DOS Machine used to support 16-bit applications originally implemented to support MS-DOS applications and 16-bit applications from Windows 3.1 days; according to Ormand...