UNDERCOVER FOR VISTA SECURITY.

The article discusses security measures in Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system that were developed in partnership with the United States National Security Agency (NSA). The measures were designed to help safeguard the software from worms, Trojan horses, and other computer attacks that cost th...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 3; p. 9
Main Author: Maxson, Lynn H.
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Mar2007
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