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Microsoft Readying Massive Real Time Threat Intelligence Feed
chicksdaddy wrote in with a link to a story about a Microsoft project that will share security information in real time with customers and law enforcement. The article reads "Microsoft has proven that it can take down huge, global botnets like Kelihos, Rustock and Waldec. Now the company is ready to start making the data it acquires in those busts available to governments, law enforcement and customers as a real time threat intelligence feed. Representatives from the Redmond, Washington software maker told an audience at the International Conference on Cyber Security (ICCS) here that it was testing a new service to distribute threat data from captured botnets and other sources to partners, including foreign governments, Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) and private corporations."
If you've failed to secure your computer then you've waived your right to privacy. Seriously, what exactly do you think malware does? Sure some of it just sends spam, but an awful lot of it is focused on taking your personal information to steal your identity.
Plus, if people aren't willing to step up now, I don't think that naming and shaming is really the worst thing in the world.
Microsoft is no 'hero' in this story. A large percentage of the bots on the bot net are unknowingly infected users. And the number one used, and most widely regarded as an unsecure operating system? I'm sure MS has no problem taking down large bot nets, probably using thier own known security holes to gain access and secure against unknowing, infected users. What's stopping them from monopolizing on this? Time. Microsoft is holding out on patching holes to seem like the knight riding in with +4 shinning armor to make their efforts ucrative.