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 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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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 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.