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Vista contest offers cash for exploits (itnews paper)

2007/01/15 : "A US security firm is offering up to US$72,000 in bounties for the development of working exploits for Microsoft's Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7." Read more

Microsoft Exchange servers are getting hacked via ProxyShell exploits

2021/08/12 : Lawrence Abrams explains how "Orange Tsai at a Black Hat talk about recent Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities he discovered when targeting the Microsoft Exchange Client Access Service (CAS) attack surface.
After watching the talk, security researchers PeterJson and Nguyen Jang ...Read more

Schneier - Crypto-Gram August 15, 1999

1999/08/15 : Here is the monthly newsletter written by Schneier on his blog. He speaks among other things about Back Orifice.

This artifact is part of the Back Orifice Bundle and the...Read more

Security in an Open Electronic Society - Levy reaction on Culp essay

2001/10/21 : Levy gives his point of view on Culp essay : "It appears Culp is more comfortable with an 'information dictatorship' or 'information oligarchy' model, and has entirely missed the fact that the movie house ...Read more

A Call for Better Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (Microsoft and Google Project Zero)

2015/01/11 : Microsoft made a call for better coordinated vulnerability disclosure after that "Google has released information about a vulnerability in a Microsoft product, two days before [their] planned fix on [their] well known and coordinated Patch Tuesday cadence, despite [their]...Read more

Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure at Microsoft

2011/04 : "This [Microsoft] document aims to clarify how Microsoft communicates the disclosure of vulnerabilities with industry peers, customers, and the research community in a coordinated way. Lastly, this documentexplains how to engage with Microsoft in coordinated...Read more

Remote print server gives anyone Windows admin privileges on a PC

2021/07/31 : Lawrence Abrams writes a paper about a new event of full disclosure.

"A researcher has created a remote print server allowing any Windows user with limited privileges to gain complete control over a device simply by installing a print driver."Read more

Wannacry Ransomware

2017/05 : "The WannaCry ransomware attack was a worldwide cyberattack in May 2017 by the WannaCry ransomware cryptoworm, which targeted computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system by encrypting data and demanding ransom payments in the Bitcoin cryptocurrency." (Wikipedia)Read more
Culp - It's time to end information anarchy

2001/10 : Scott Culp, who founded MSRC (Microsoft Security Response Center), wrote an influential paper, after a series of attacks (virus and worms) from Feb to September 2001. At this time, the irritation against hackers and full disclosures was already calm since months.

Culp...Read more

MS says stop discussing hack exploits - Leyden paper

2001/10/18 : Leyden explains Culp essay.

This artifact is part of the Culp debate Bundle.Read more

Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure: Bringing Balance to the Force (Microsoft)

2010/07/22 : "Today on the MSRC [Microsoft Security Response Center] blog, Matt Thomlinson, General Manager of Trustworthy Computing Security, announced our new philosophy on Coordinated...Read more

NEOHAPSIS - LeBlanc reaction on Culp essay

2001/11/02 : David LeBlanc, founding member of the Trustworthy Computing Initiative at Microsoft, defend Culp. 

"So a vendor who won't fix bugs unless their customers are threatened with active attack is a very different problem than one who fixes problems...Read more

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