A team of researchers
recently found a zombie vulnerability that affects every single version of Windows—including the Windows 10 preview. Microsoft
has no plans to fix the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is a zombie, because it’s an undead version of a vulnerability that first appeared in 1997.
Working with Cylance, a team of security researchers at Carnegie Mellon’s CERT Division found the same weakness enables a new way of stealing usernames and passwords from Windows, as well as software from 31 different vendors, including Adobe, Apple, Oracle and Symantec.
