Attacks that leverage Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities "have escalated," warns CNN. They cite a senior White House official saying the window for updating exposed servers is incredibly short -- "measured in hours, not days."
Why are we hearing this from a "senior White House official" and not Microsoft?
Mod parent up, though it's not the biggest insight of the day.
I actually think the EULA may be the largest innovation that can be attributed to Microsoft--but even that EULA is just a refinement of other people's ideas. The key notion is that no matter how badly Microsoft screwed up and no matter how much damage was (and is) caused by Microsoft's incompetence or negligence no one can legally touch Microsoft. (The #2 innovation was selling upstream rather than to end users.)
If Microsoft had ANY residual fraction of liability for all of the pwning they've caused, then you can bet we'd be living in a MUCH more secure computing world.
Weird chain of notification (Score:4, Interesting)
Attacks that leverage Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities "have escalated," warns CNN. They cite a senior White House official saying the window for updating exposed servers is incredibly short -- "measured in hours, not days."
Why are we hearing this from a "senior White House official" and not Microsoft?
And why is this from CNN?
Very odd.
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The Microscrewups are hiding and hoping this will blow over, like so much of the damage they have done.
Re:Weird chain of notification (Score:2)
Mod parent up, though it's not the biggest insight of the day.
I actually think the EULA may be the largest innovation that can be attributed to Microsoft--but even that EULA is just a refinement of other people's ideas. The key notion is that no matter how badly Microsoft screwed up and no matter how much damage was (and is) caused by Microsoft's incompetence or negligence no one can legally touch Microsoft. (The #2 innovation was selling upstream rather than to end users.)
If Microsoft had ANY residual fraction of liability for all of the pwning they've caused, then you can bet we'd be living in a MUCH more secure computing world.
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Mod parent up, though it's not the biggest insight of the day.
Indeed it is not. It is so blatantly obvious that using MS crap on servers is a bad idea, it should automatically count as gross negligence.
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Indeed it is not. It is so blatantly obvious that using MS crap on servers is a bad idea, it should automatically count as gross negligence.
What a wonderful world that would be...