[gui-talk] Windows CE, Symbain Wide Open to Attack

Sat Oct 14 11:06:10 CDT 2006

Originally, and maybe still, MicroSquish saw/sees a conjunction between home entertainment and Home Computing and the Internet as a route for 
descimination of media to a home entertainment environment, sound video and the like.  "CE" for imbedded systems and stuff was to be that OS.

Nick

On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 08:07:07 -0700, Joel Deutsch wrote:

 Hi Nick,

 What does "setp top" mean?  Does all this equate, roughtly, with saying that 
 these to things, Windows CE and Sinbaine, are what I've heard called the 
 "firmware" of such devices?
 hose
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 A set top version of the Windows OS on which devices such as the BrailleNote 
 family of devices run, as well as many sub-notebooks Etc...

 Nick

 On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:58:52 -0700, Joel Deutsch wrote:

  What is Windows CE?

  thanks.

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  Windows CE, Symbian wide open to attack

  Growing number of vulnerabilities turning up in both platforms

  John E. Dunn   Today's Top Stories    or  Other Security Stories
  October 13, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- Windows CE is at an especially high
  risk of attack according to a new analysis of malware threats.
  Kaspersky Lab researcher Alexander Gostev has produced the report, it which
  it is noted that the mobile version of Windows remains wide open to 
 software
  exploits compared to desktop versions, and allows easy programming access 
 to
  core operating system functions.
  Gostev refers to the growing number of vulnerabilities that have affected
  the platform, starting with the Duts proof-of-concept virus of 2004 that 
 was
  able to exploit a security hole unknown to Microsoft, making it a zero-day
  flaw. "There's no doubt that these vulnerabilities exist. The question is
  only who will detect them first - a virus writer, or a white hat security
  researcher," said Gotsev. "The main environment used to develop malicious
  programs will be .Net, and a significant number of these viruses will
  exploit vulnerabilities in Windows CE."

  Although rival Symbian is a harder platform on which to create native
  malware -- programmers require expensive tools to build Symbian
  applications -- Gotsev is almost as scathing on its security design.

  He details a newly documented and verified vulnerability that would allow 
 an
  attacker to cause a denial-of-service on a Symbian system simply by sending
  a small file capable of choking the Web browser, thereby slowing it down.
  "Even a cursory glance and a few simple experiments reveal that Symbian is
  riddled with errors," he said.

  To date, mobile malware and exploits -- which typically spread using a
  mobile device's Bluetooth connection -- have been a mostly theoretical
  issue, prompting some to question their significance.

  But the pessimism surrounding Symbian seems justified. In 2005, the
  TrojanDoombot.A , which harbored the Commwarrior.B worm, went turned up to
  bother a small number of Symbian Series 60 devices. More recently, the worm
  Commwarrior.Q hit the platform again.

  Reprinted with permission from

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