Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

[News] [Rival] Microsoft Yet to Fix 6 "Critical" Flaws This Tuesday, Microsoft Says Too Much Security is Bad

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Yet to Fix 6 "Critical" Flaws This Tuesday, Microsoft Says Too Much Security is Bad
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:39:47 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Microsoft plans six critical patches

,----[ Quote
| At least one of the critical vulnerabilities involves Internet Explorer 7 and 
| Windows Vista, both of which were conceived under new and highly vaunted 
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| development rigors designed to produce more secure products.  
`----

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/09/microsoft_august_patch_tuesday/

Microsoft man says too much security is bad thing 

,----[ Quote ]
| Steve Riley, senior security strategist at Microsoft said that too much 
| security was a bad thing and when the cost of mitigating the risk outweighs 
| the cost of that which you are trying to protect, it all gets a bit silly.  
`----

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41573

Passwords: just another bureaucratic annoyance

,----[ Quote ]
| This was told to me, along with examples of other security policy lapses, by 
| an IT consultant who works for government agencies. 
`----

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/08/passwords_just_another_beauroc.html

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index