http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2007/09/13/confirmation-of-stealth-windows-update/ Bringing Fire To The Village: Your Source For Computer, Network & Information Security News from Dave Lewis, Security Blogger Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:18:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2007/09/13/confirmation-of-stealth-windows-update/#comment-67773 Liquidmatrix Security Digest » Microsoft Adds Potential NSA Access To Vista Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:06:26 +0000 http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2007/09/13/confirmation-of-stealth-windows-update/#comment-67773 [...] As if Vista had not managed to garner enough bad press on its own. Bruce Schneier reported yesterday that Microsoft has reintroduced its dual random number generator. This time in Vista SP1. That is the same as one he had written about previously. The catch is that, according to Schneier, this potentially provides an NSA back door. This is disabled by default. However, that is no guarantee that it won’t switched to the “on” position in a later patch release. [...] [...] As if Vista had not managed to garner enough bad press on its own. Bruce Schneier reported yesterday that Microsoft has reintroduced its dual random number generator. This time in Vista SP1. That is the same as one he had written about previously. The catch is that, according to Schneier, this potentially provides an NSA back door. This is disabled by default. However, that is no guarantee that it won’t switched to the “on” position in a later patch release. [...]

]]> http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2007/09/13/confirmation-of-stealth-windows-update/#comment-59904 Liquidmatrix Security Digest » Microsoft Now Takes Blame For WSUS Update Error Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:24:08 +0000 http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2007/09/13/confirmation-of-stealth-windows-update/#comment-59904 [...] puts hand up, “our bad”. After the story broke about the stealth updates Microsoft has admitted that they goofed. The problem hit he support [...] [...] puts hand up, “our bad”. After the story broke about the stealth updates Microsoft has admitted that they goofed. The problem hit he support [...]

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