Microsoft security - no longer an oxymoron?
George Heuston Mar 04 2004 http://tinyurl.com/25ayx

... Windows 95 was designed to be totally open to let users connect to
other systems. The security kernel of the Windows NT server software was
written before the internet, and the Windows Server 2003 software was
written before buffer overflows became a frequent target of recent attacks"

"almost all the Net-based attacks on Microsoft's software focus on
portions of the operating system that can talk to older versions of its
software -- so-called "legacy" attacks"

".. only once has its distributed product suffered a cyber attack in
which an unknown and unpatched vulnerability was exploited"

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