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● 04.09.09

●● Insecurity Through Obscurity

Posted in GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Security, Windows at 6:34 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Windows renders E-mail chaotic and the U.S. electrical grid gets cracked

Nothing beats a brand-new explanation from Microsoft itself about the impact of its poor security skills, which continue to this date.

=> ↺ Microsoft itself about the impact of its poor security skills | continue to this date

More than 97% of all e-mails sent over the net are unwanted, according to a Microsoft security report.

This report from Microsoft probably neglects to mention that the vast majority of SPAM is spewed from Microsoft Windows botnets. And speaking of poor security (inherent in secret code), here is another new report, among many similar ones.

=> the vast majority of SPAM is spewed from Microsoft Windows botnets | ↺ new report

Chinese and Russian cyberspies have hacked into the U.S. electrical grid and have left behind software that could be used to interfere with the system, a report said Wednesday.

The original report comes from the Wall Street Journal (thus requiring subscription), but the message is clear. This facility runs a legacy proprietary system that experts have warned about for quite some time.

=> ↺ comes from the Wall Street Journal

Here ends another daily lesson about security and obscurity. They have a reverse relationship. There is evidence that shows GNU/Linux to be more secure. █

=> evidence that shows GNU/Linux to be more secure

“Two security researchers have developed a new technique that essentially bypasses all of the memory protection safeguards in the Windows Vista operating system…”

–Dennis Fisher

“It is no exaggeration to say that the national security is also implicated by the efforts of hackers to break into computing networks.”

–Jim Allchin, Microsoft

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