The Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire each have their own app stores. Amazon wants you to get all your apps from the Amazon Appstore, and Barnes and Noble keeps customers locked into Nook Apps. Well, you just can’t keep people from finding exploits in the system that will let them to do just about whatever they want. The Kindle Fire can technically access the Android Market, and now the Nook Tablet can download apps that aren’t approved by B&N. The only difference is you don’t have to root the Nook Tablet to take advantage of this find.

The latest data released by Microsoft has revealed some interesting truths regarding Vista, XP and security. Nearly every possible aspect of Vista has been attacked, and it’s been labeled as a failure by many who continue to use XP and campaign for continued support. However, data released in the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report shows that Vista is in fact less vulnerable to exploits than XP.

The data, which was collected from January to June this year, shows a decline of vulnerabilities from 116 to 77 in a downward trend that mirrors the industry, which, in turn, has a 19% decrease. Regarding XP and Vista Microsoft found that in computers running XP, Microsoft’s own software contained 42% of the vulnerabilities attacked with third party software making up the other 58%. However in Vista PCs, only 6% of vulnerabilities were in Microsoft software, and this is due to (according to Vinny Gullotto general manager of Microsoft’s malware protection center) new security technologies. More after the break.

If you are using Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows Vista, and make use of its voice recognition system, beware of a newly found flaw that may seriously harm your computer. The user must have speakers and a microphone in use on the system. A foreign user could publish an audio file that when played through more »