Anti-Microsoft Group Reveals Windows Zero-Day Bug
Anti-Microsoft Group Reveals Windows Zero-Day Bug
Posted 07/07/2010 at 5:31am
| by Paul Lilly
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Forget about a woman scorned, it's an anonymous group of pissed off researchers that's directing their fury at Microsoft. The group, whose members wish to remain anonymous, formed the "Microsoft-Spurned Researcher Collective," and one of their first acts of business was to publish information detailing an unpatched Windows bug as a way of avenging alleged mistreatment of a colleague.
"Due to hostility toward security researchers, the most recent example being of Tavis Ormandy, a number of us from the industry (and some not from the industry) have come together to form MSRC: the Microsoft-Spurned Researcher Collective," the message read. "MSRC will fully disclose vulnerability information discovered in our free time, free from retaliation against us or any inferred employer."
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the name of the group is a jab at the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), which is responsible for sniffing out vulnerabilities. But if they're looking to rattle Microsoft's cage, it doesn't appear to be working.
"Our intial analysis of the Proof-of-Concept code supplied has determined that an attacker must be able to log on locally or already have code running on the target system in order to cause a local Denial of Service," said Jerry Bryant, a group manager with the company's MSRC.
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Civilian
July 07, 2010 at 3:49pm
Considering the comments so far I'd say Microsoft's publicists team is out in full force to spin this. "Oooo! These guys are sooo bad, don't listen to them"
These guys are doing a great service to the average windows user, and for free, in their own time.
Mr_Histamine
July 07, 2010 at 2:35pm
I'll give it three months before a few disgruntled members reveal the identities of the other members while simultaneously creating the AMSRC (Anti-Microsoft-Spurned Researcher Collective). I mean seriously, they need to accept that the guy's actions were wrong, and move on.
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Blues22475
July 07, 2010 at 7:28am
Not only are they acting childish, but they're endagering their jobs by disclosing information that is sensitive. This is putting those "anonymous" people's jobs in danger (figuring it won't be that hard to sniff out those responsible).
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n0b0dykn0ws
July 07, 2010 at 6:37am
I think the way these people are acting is childish.
How would they like it if someone reported that they were out of their house and had left the door unlocked or a window open?
Microsoft's beef with Tavis Ormandy was the fact that he just spilled the beans without giving Microsoft a chance to investigate.
And this group should know that there is no such thing as true anonymity anymore. All it takes is one slipup or one disgruntled member and the cat will be out of the bag.
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