Re: How to Report a Security Vulnerability to Microsoft

[tuytumadre () att net]

> hahahahahaha 
>
> m$ doing social engineering on fd, this is a joke. 
>
> basically they want your 0days so billg becomes more rich. 

Mr. Guninski, although I am a huge fan of your work, I could not disagree more. I am sending this email from Redmond 
where I was invited by Microsoft to a small conference about security (it was mostly about what they go through when 
stuff is reported). "M$", as you call it, is not trying to get your 0days. They simply want to protect customers, and, 
although a large part about it is profits, the concern is mostly (as far as I know) about the users. Microsoft's 
biggest fear is wide-spread virus epidemics, so when a critical vulnerability is fully disclosed without prior notice 
to MSRC, Microsoft goes into an emergency state and everyone gets off of vacation early to come in and help resolve the 
issue (as was the case with my auto-sp2rc release in December, also called "Paul's Christmas" by MSRC employees). 
Microsoft knows that security researchers hang out on lists like fd a bugtraq, so what better place to eliminate the 
common improper disclosing ignorance than to provide cl
 ear, concise instructions directly on the security hotspots?

Regards,
Paul
Greyhats Security
http://greyhatsecurity.org

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