The Register sums up the Black Hat briefings pretty well. The Operating System level has received a lot of scrutiny in recent years for security flaws and as a result there has been a good deal of improvement there and so now, researchers are heading to the low hanging fruit of the REST of the software stack, be it the drivers, or browsers, or office software. Another area of software were those class of programs that run checking for updates for OTHER software. It’s time to realize that most ANY piece of software could compromise system security and updates need to be expected for most any part of the “software stack”.