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Air Force Warns Microsoft/Others to Tighten Security
FattyBoeBatty wrote to us with a story
from USA Today about the the Air Force and security concerns. The Microsoft point is the primary point of the article, but the AF CIO has also made the point at industry forums, and evidently with Cisco. Specific companies aside, I think it's a good thing that organizations are beignning to realize the exposure they have on security issues - and maybe will actually start to take steps to close them.
...if they have to give up features for security. The crap features and reinvented "new features" are why you buy the OS in the first place.
In my humble opinion, the only reason all the security holes are being found in Microsoft's software, is by virtue of the fact that it is, like it or not, running the majority of the world's computers, something like 95%. I am sure that if any other OS was as widely used, more breaches would be found in it's security, and don't say that *nix does not have any security holes, because we all know that it has had it's share, although not quite as numerous. So I believe that Popularity=Exploitation
I hate sigs.
I have a suggestion...
Why don't you take all this negative energy and hate and direct it to something positive. Like, learning how to administer your Windows systems so that they aren't vulnerable to issues.
The company I work for has not had any issues with email born viruses since ILOVEYOU. It took one lesson, we learned from it, we corrected the problems and we moved on. If you don't learn then you are too stupid to be in IT.
Seems to me that after 9/11, the government is blaming plenty of people for the incident yet it should be blaming itself.