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The Art of Covering Up Microsoft Bug Doors

These are actively-exploited bugs that Microsoft hasn't offered any patch for

CISA on Microsoft
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Summary: The site Beta Noise ("News") is a GNU/Linux-hostile propaganda mill of Microsoft that's moreover posting webspam, misleading clickbait, FUD, and even shameless plagiarism

THE site Beta Noise ("News") deserves a boycott. Even when it covers "Linux" the coverage tends to be hostile, plagiarism, or ridiculous clickbait -- a sort of misinformation.

Case of point? Here's a new one, only 12 hours old...

"There's this old Microsoft tactic of trying to shift attention to "Linux" in relation to security to deflect and distract from vastly worse Windows blunders."As we've just noted in Daily Links, citing this piece of junk ('reporting'), what we have here is "[g]rotesque bias from Microsoft's propagandist Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson; CISA has in fact just warned about Microsoft Windows, so Sofia tries to write some nonsense about Linux; GNU/Linux barely even use RAR. This is low-graded Microsoft propaganda. Check the banner/feature image saying "Linux" when in fact what CISA announced is actively-exploited holes in Microsoft Windows. RAR is just some ancient proprietary codec/compression algorithm, GNU/Linux users overwhelmingly adopt Gzip."

We actually spotted the official CISA announcement about this almost 24 hours ago. Internal discussion said: "This post is about Microsoft and about Windows. But it does not mention either "Microsoft" or "Windows". Typical CISA."

See the screenshot at the top from the page they link to.

So instead of the media blasting Windows this is what people are presented with by Sofia:

Sofia's FUD'



There's this old Microsoft tactic of trying to shift attention to "Linux" in relation to security to deflect and distract from vastly worse Windows blunders. The above isn't even a "Linux" issue, it's an issue in a program few people even have installed! Moreover, in order for it to be exploited one need to retrieve some very rogue file.

Suffice to say, the above site is infested with Microsoft boosters and spinners. The clickbait makes it worse, as does the webspam.

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