Microsoft Weblog

October 4th, 2006

Firefox Vulnerabilities a Hoax

Looks like the Black Hat community has a black-eye to go along with their hats.
Claimed security hole in Firefox “just a joke”
It’s probably not a healthy thing for me, but I kind of wish it wasn’t true. I really do think that if Apple and Firefox had half the market share Microsoft did with Windows […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

October 3rd, 2006

Firefox Not So Fireproof

Fellow b5′er Mary Ford writes about the black hat community finding an “unpatchable” hole in Firefox’s implementation of some javascript along with 30 more vulnerabilities. Since this is the all-so-popular Firefox, this means it’s impacting Windows, Apple and Linux OS’s.

The flaw is specific to Firefox’s implementation of JavaScript, a 10-year-old scripting language widely used on […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

August 5th, 2006

Vista Talking Some Security Smack

Even though Scoble says Vista isn’t read and who knows when it will ever be released, Microsoft is throwing down the proverbial gauntlet and asking the hacker community to give it their best shot.
BRILLIANT!
This is the kind of strategy that Microsoft should have pursued earlier in the game. My only fear is they may be […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments