Stephen Toulouse
Stephen Toulouse
Stephen Toulouse, also known as Stepto, former Director of Xbox LIVE Policy and Enforcement at Microsoft. He frequently represented Microsoft and Xbox Live in various media, including on Larry Hryb's "Major Nelson Radio" Xbox-related podcast, to discuss security and policy issues...
currently early phase released testing update
Currently that update is in the testing phase and could be released as early as April. But of course, that isn't final.
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This situation is now resolved and customers should be able to get the update. I want to reiterate that the problem had nothing to do with the update itself, you applied it manually from the download center or got it through SUS 1.0 it should install correctly and protect against the vulnerability. But it's available now for everyone.
impact partners seeing widespread
Certainly, right now, we and our anti-virus partners are not seeing a widespread impact of this attack.
although bad customers infection information mean providing rates sure
Although infection rates are low, it doesn't mean it's not a bad situation, ... We want to make sure, not only are we providing information to make sure customers aren't impacted, but to make sure they know how to get back to an operational state.
began plan ready test track update weeks
Our test and engineering plan for that update that we began two weeks ago is on track to have that update ready for Tuesday.
activities against close constantly customers environment exploits eye help keeping lists malicious protect related threat threats
The MSRC is constantly monitoring the threat environment for any malicious activity. We are keeping an especially close eye on the newsgroups and vulnerability lists for exploits related to this month's activities and will mobilize immediately to help protect customers against threats as necessary.
affected far impact limited remain seeing shown widespread windows
It only affected Windows 2000. So far it has shown a very limited impact -- we're not seeing any widespread impact to the Internet, but we remain vigilant.
accelerate cause fast problems takes testing trigger
This is why it takes so long, but that's not to say that if there's an exploit, we won't accelerate testing and get it out there as fast as we can. But if we find problems in the testing phase, it could trigger a restart and cause even more delays.
both incorrect record size somehow trigger using wrong
There's been some speculation that you can only trigger this by using an incorrect size in your metafile record and that this trigger was somehow intentional. That speculation is wrong on both counts. The vulnerability can be triggered with correct or incorrect size values.
somehow trigger
There's been some speculation that ... this trigger was somehow intentional. That speculation is wrong.
benefit huge
It had a huge benefit to our developers.
time
It is on the table. Every time any kind of exploitation is going on, it is on the table.
answer customers huge millions represent responsibility
The huge responsibility we have is that we have to answer to our customers, and our customers represent potentially hundreds of millions of different configurations.
available coming maximum month please possible rating severity soon systems total update
The maximum total severity rating for this month is Critical, so please update systems as soon as possible when the bulletin is available this coming Tuesday.