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'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 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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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.
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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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There's been some speculation that ... this trigger was somehow intentional. That speculation is wrong.
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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.
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Among the critical updates, customers who run older versions of the operating system such as Windows 2000 should prioritize MS05-051 for deployment on those systems.
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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.
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It is on the table. Every time any kind of exploitation is going on, it is on the table.
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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 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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I have approximately 70 messages on Xbox Live right now and half of them are, 'I'm going to kill you' and 'I'm going to find you and destroy you' and I haven't worked (at Microsoft) in two years. Even to this day people who don't know I left Microsoft still come after me.
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Here's the reality, for the next couple of years the Mac OS will experience increasing security threats and mark my words, the company will have to seek outside expertise in the form of a head of security communications in the next 12 months.