Bug could allow remote attacker to use speech recognition to run malicious programs.

The honeymoon ended early for Microsoft’s Vista operating system, after word spread about a flaw that could allow remote attackers to take advantage of the new operating system’s speech recognition feature, a process nicknamed as “shout hacking.”

Microsoft researchers are investigating the reports of a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to use the speech recognition feature to run malicious programs on Vista systems using prerecorded verbal commands, the company said in an e-mail statement.

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