[Video] Microsoft Strikes Hard, Silences the Victims
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Microsoft Hiding the Total Cost of Ownership
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THE latest "Windows TCO" batch was added here some moments ago, not in the sister site as usual, serving to mostly make the point that Microsoft holes are persistent, severe and hugely expensive to all parties involved (states, businesses, clients, staff and so on). TCO is the Total Cost of Ownership; here's a batch of examples from yesterday. It just keeps coming!
Even CISA, which is connected to Microsoft (sadly), seems to understand the severity of this matter. The other day a Microsoft-connected site said:
CISA warns that attackers are now exploiting a critical [Microsoft] SharePoint privilege escalation vulnerability that can be chained with another critical bug for remote code execution.
There are many stories like these every day; many targets, many victims...
I recently learned that scammers had been calling former staff based on data acquired in a data breach, initially downplayed and belittled as if it was just a matter of the Net being down for most of a week. Media outside of the US and UK seems to be catching up, but it typically stops short of blaming Microsoft and instead blames China, Russia, or whoever is alleged to been living in some supposedly hostile country. As if a cracker based in France is somehow less dangerous...
It seems like this is what Microsoft is trying to distract from this week. It also tries to cite itself as security guru regarding Iran when Microsoft itself is the culprit. A former Microsoft security manager, who died nearly a decade ago, kept cautioning that Microsoft kept lying about security. He urged people to dump Microsoft (which he had come from) and adopt GNU/Linux.
Today's video focuses on this annual report, which makes no mention of the breach which shut down the University for 3 days, especially the hospital system. It's interesting how Microsoft compels victims of Microsoft to not even state what happened. "There may be gag clauses on university (and other institutions') support contacts," one person told us. █