Thomas Kristensen
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Thomas Kristensen
Thomas Fauerskov Kristensenis a Danish footballer who plays as a midfielder for Brisbane Roar in the A-League. Kristensen has been capped eleven times for the Danish national team...
amount available certainly extremely given information limited number patches people serious vulnerable
It certainly is a serious threat, but given the amount of information available from Cisco you would think there would only be an extremely limited number of vulnerable systems. Most people should have patches in place before there are any exploits.
intercept message signature
Someone who's able to intercept the message as it's transmitted could inject some data, and then the person who verifies the signature would be told it's a valid, unaltered message.
code exploit launch nasty run
An attacker could use the exploit to run any code they want to on a person's system. It could be they want to launch some really nasty code on a user's system.
bother few macs seems time unless virus writers
Because of all the barriers, it just seems like virus writers won't bother unless they see Macs as some kind of new frontier. Even then, few won't want to put in that kind of time and effort.
danger people rating sparingly
We don't have an 'extremely critical' ranking very often. We use the rating sparingly so people will know when the danger is very serious.
aware code exploit happen likely since systems
We aren't aware of any systems that have been compromised yet, but it's likely to happen since there's exploit code out.
create difficult months patches users
Vendors can take months to create patches, and sometimes users grumble about that, ... But the alternative is to have patches that can be circumvented or aren't appropriate for the vulnerability. It's a difficult balance.