Microsoft Gives Another Bug a Name, This Time Logjamââ¢
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2015-05-22 15:54:23 UTC
- Modified: 2015-05-22 15:54:23 UTC
Any logo/s yet?
Summary: The Microsoft crowd is good only at marketing, even when it comes to small bugs in software
Another brand for a bug, namely "logjam", was made up by Microsoft et al. Linux sites cover this and add to the panic already. As the Microsoft-friendly BBC put it: "The "LogJam attack" was discovered by researchers at Microsoft and a number of US and French universities." This "logjam" nonsense already has its own brand and even a dedicated Web site, just like Heartbleedââ¢. As a reminder, Heartbleedâ⢠too was coined by a Microsoft-connected firm, despite the fact that the bug was found by a man from Google.
Just over a week ago a
Microsoft-connected firm spread the word VENOMâ⢠as part of
a marketing/propaganda campaign, serving to discourage companies from adopting Free/libre software for virtualisation. People remember brands better than they remember numbers (of advisories) or technical details, which may or may not indicate level of severity.
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