Comments on: Yet Another Inherited Vulnerability in That Other OS

By: Robert Pogson

Robert Pogson — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:47:13 +0000

A few days later:

http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/8/9/windows-kernel-overflow-vulnerability-found/

It never ends.

“Google employee and Microsoft basher Tavis Ormandy twitted: “I don’t think there’s been more than a few days this year that Microsoft [hasn't] been vulnerable to public kernel flaws.”"

By: Robert Pogson

Robert Pogson — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:32:25 +0000

That’s actually quite an improvement considering the volume of code has increased since the Lose ’9x days. Then they used to ship 50K bugs and no security at all…

By: Richard Chapman

Richard Chapman — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 01:03:06 +0000

Hey! Did you hear the latest news? Microsoft released 20,000 security holes and there’s an application included.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:50:34 +0000

The issue of ‘calling out windows/microsoft’ is why blogs such as Poson’s, Goodbye-microsoft. etc. exist. Without citizen journalism we wouldn’t get the other side of the coin.

By: Richard Chapman

Richard Chapman — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:21:15 +0000

I have a theory about OS vulnerabilities. The Holy Grail would be very few. You know, like GNU/Linux. If a company, say, Microsoft for instance, is unable or unwilling to achieve that state then a blizzard of vulnerabilities is better than a few every now and then. This havoc Microsoft’s software is retching upon the World week after week… is normal. Or at least it’s accepted as normal. Microsoft goes to great effort to enforce that notion. Most articles and news announcements about vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s software never mention Microsoft or the software. It’s just a “computer” virus. Try that with an outbreak of Salmonella. “There is a new outbreak of Salmonella. Dozens of people have been hospitalized, many in serious condition. Tainted peanut butter is suspected in this second incident this month.” Does Microsoft’s software cause as much damage as Salmonella? No, it causes far more damage. It’s just never tabulated. I would rate Microsoft’s damage to IT at a one Katrina a year.