[aclug-L] Microsoft News

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.microsoft.com/info/devenutiletter.htm

Microsoft's explanation for some recent DoS attacks and router
misconfiguration... My favorite part is quoted below:


In the past, Microsoft has focused on understanding and protecting against
attacks on Microsoft products in order to provide a better set of Internet
services to customers and a more robust and secure set of products for
enterprise customers. Unfortunately, as we have learned over the last few
days, we did not apply sufficient self-defense techniques to our use of some
third-party products at the front-end of parts of our core network
infrastructure, where we are a customer, not a vendor.
....
We want to assure you that there were no Microsoft products involved in any
of the three incidents last week.

I think this can safely be interpreted to mean: "No Microsoft products were
harmed during our misuse of third-party routers."

Or am I just way off key? :-)

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