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Vista Voices

Vista Voices
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This made my day. It appears that you can talk to your Vista based PC and tell it to delete files, assuming you have the speech component enabled.

Hackers can apparently abuse this by placing a speech file in an email which you innocently open and play, this in turn being picked up by your microphone.

Boy, if my computer really did what I tell it to do when Word crashes there would be a lot of sore developers in that team at Microsoft.

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Posted by Nigel Stanley on 01 Feb. 2007

Tags: Company reputation, Email security, Hacking, Legal issues, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Promoting Security, Social engineering, User Security, Web security, Windows