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...
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We had been looking into detailing the history anyway and some customer questions drove the idea to write it up. We just wanted to make sure people had the history.
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Should MS05-018 have been a more complete update to address the underlying vulnerable function? Yes, Cesar is right. But I want to reiterate that MS05-018 did protect against the issue that was brought to us,
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Security researchers provide a valuable service to our customers in helping us to secure our products. We want to get face to face with them to talk about their views on security, our views on security, and see how best we can meet to protect customers.
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We've taken a look at this situation and incorporated some lessons learned. We will work very hard to help ensure something like this doesn't happen in the future,
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We're working on an update to Internet Explorer and that update is currently in our testing process and could come out as early as April. However there's no firm date.
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We're working day and night on development of a cumulative security update for Internet Explorer that addresses the vulnerability.
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We're literally in a meeting going over our plans, keeping track of things, when we got word on Tuesday that CNN was reporting they had been hit. At the time, we knew a high-profile target was reporting they had been hit and they didn't know what it was. Their computers were shutting down and restarting,
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We can't leave anybody behind. And unfortunately you might be introducing new problems. So whenever we look at even a quick hack ... it's got to be of quality. That's what customers have told us time and again.
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We have not tested this mitigation tool. We can't recommend it because we have not tested it...Customers should weigh the risk of applying something like this to their systems.
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The key thing is really that we want to make people understand the risk with these flaws and that they enable automatic updates.
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If you aren't using Macromedia Flash Player, or know that you don't need it, you can disable the ActiveX control in Internet Explorer through the
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In general, many of these bulletins have a lower impact in terms of severity and are much more difficult to exploit on newer operating systems such as Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1.
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We saw the exploit code and our Security Windows Reaction Team tested it against the patch, and we were convinced we would see an attack. It was only a matter of time,
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Currently this exploit is not publicly available, but we continue to urge customers on older versions of our operating systems to deploy MS05-051 to help protect from attempted exploitation,