Marc Maiffret
Marc Maiffret
Marc Maiffret is the Chief Technology Officer at BeyondTrust, a leading security and compliance management company. Maiffret joined BeyondTrust by way of their acquisition of eEye Digital Security, which he co-founded in 1998 along with Firas Bushnaq. Marc is an industry visionary who created one of the first Vulnerability Management and Web Application Firewall products, which to date, have been deployed worldwide and won numerous product awards. Marc, a security research pioneer, is credited with discovering some of the first...
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It's disappointing that Microsoft says the threat isn't big because it's only been found on 200 URLs. Why are they thinking about these attacks like they think about network worms? The risk of the quiet, targeted attack is very, very high and this should be an emergency situation for Microsoft.
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One of our customers asked which patch they should deploy if there starts to be a lot of third-party patches. I told them, it's just like picking a dentist or a plumber -- you're going to go with someone who's got a good reputation.
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It's really unclear. There's a good chance we will never know where it came from.
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It's basically almost any Windows PC right now that you can compromise if you can trick a person to going to the wrong Web site or opening the wrong e-mail.