Hackers Often Accidentally Send Code to Microsoft

[tat2demon]

The title should be changed to "Hackers Use To Send Code to Microsoft". What kind of idiot lets this info out. Its like cops telling drug dealers that their phone is tapped.

 

[Parsian]

eople have sent us their virus code when they're trying to develop their virus and they keep crashing their systems," Rocky Heckman said. "It's amazing how much stuff we get."

Hence there came to existence Microsoft Security Essentials that actually works decently enough since they get fresh out of oven info...

 

[eastcoaster]

I wonder what the attack stats are on Google?

 

[TheStealthyOne]

Holy crap that's a lot.

 

[L0tus]

I know it's everywhere but I just can't get past that picture in blue....effing hilarious!

 

[dEAne]

That makes microsoft lots of codes to worked on.

 

[cranium]

This disproves the misconception that hackers are inherently smart. Writing in code is like speaking a different language. And if there's anything I've learned from the internet, it's that idiocy is global

 

[Kelavarus]

Not really surprising. Any successful malware would probably be written by someone above average in skill, and thus most likely would realize NOT to click the "Send to Microsoft" option.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

I wonder what Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg would say. Oh yeah, "Dumbf#cks".

 

[swell9]

Does no one else feel a bit concerned about privacy? Isn't it too much that the Microsoft guys get to know what you were working on?

 

[sonnyd09]

What antivirus do microsoft use? Windows defender? 😉

 

[sonnyd09]

What Antivirus do microsoft use? Windows defender? I hope not... 😉

 

[c0decX]

"...that hackers who crash their systems sometimes don't hesitate to click the 'send' button when faced with the error report pop-up..."

Microsoft has more humor than some people think.
Made my day xD

 

[eddieroolz]

And despite all these attacks, Microsoft.com stays afloat and still reacts very fast. Their infrastructure must be amazing.

 

[back_by_demand]

Over 600 million attempts a day and so few actual harmful effects.
And people say MS isn't secure?
I think all future comparisons of secuity on a system should be rated in terms of a ration of attempts to breaches.
That would sort the men from the boys.

 

[erdinger]

I don't think that there's a person behind each attack cklicking.

It's probably a few hundred a day and microsoft just counts wrong!

 

[requiemsallure]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]Over 600 million attempts a day and so few actual harmful effects.And people say MS isn't secure?I think all future comparisons of secuity on a system should be rated in terms of a ration of attempts to breaches.That would sort the men from the boys.[/citation]

people who say that MS isn't secure don't really know what they are talking about... Microsoft is the most secure operating system out there, I'm not trying to sound, fanboish (best word i could think of for it) the least secure OS is Linux/Unix/ECT. and OSX is somewhere in between.

the reason is clearly stated in this article ... how often do you think that Linux and other OS's actually have Viruses made for them? if all of the sudden people replicated all the viruses ever made for windows to attack Linux, it wouldn't last a second.

people that MS windows sucks, when they see all of the security updates that come down from MS because it supposedly has a lot of flaws (I'm not saying it doesn't have any flaws far from but it in comparison...). i just assume that there was a new virus (obviously it doesn't necessarily have to be a new virus or w/e either).

in any case i digress, and i agree with you.

 

[NotYetRated]

[citation][nom]_cubase_[/nom]7000 to 9000 times per second? That's a lot of Russians![/citation]

haha a lot of Russians as well as plenty of good decent folk from China.

 

[awood28211]

[citation][nom]maigo[/nom]The bigger story here is that MS actually looks at the reports[/citation]

Not only do they look... Actually getting a response happens too. I've gotten resolutions returned from reports that I've submitted... Though I don't submit everything... If I'm in Office and it deadlocks then crashes I report that... But if I'm playing some crapware in a flash block on a website and it kills the browser, I do not send that. Pick and choose the battles... I'm sure there are priorities on reports based on the application that fails... The system sometimes works!

 

[Djhg2000]

[citation][nom]f-14[/nom]i know there's going to be alot of hate comming for saying this, but 'MALICIOUS hackers' are just slightly below murderer's and pedo's in my book. hacker's that mess with things just to see how they work and fix something to work, or work better; aren't a dangerous problem, but the ones that mess with monentary accounts or say jack up the power grid or military stuff.....GGRRRRRrrrr![/citation]

I really don't like your tone.

What you seem to be doing is called flamebaiting ( http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flamebait ) and is usually not appreciated.

 

[toallthehaters]

[citation][nom]the_krasno[/nom]Epic fail! You don't attack a tank with a BB gun![/citation]


Shoot the tank commander in the eye, then tell me that.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]requiemsallure[/nom]people who say that MS isn't secure don't really know what they are talking about... Microsoft is the most secure operating system out there, I'm not trying to sound, fanboish (best word i could think of for it) the least secure OS is Linux/Unix/ECT. and OSX is somewhere in between.the reason is clearly stated in this article ... how often do you think that Linux and other OS's actually have Viruses made for them? if all of the sudden people replicated all the viruses ever made for windows to attack Linux, it wouldn't last a second.people that MS windows sucks, when they see all of the security updates that come down from MS because it supposedly has a lot of flaws (I'm not saying it doesn't have any flaws far from but it in comparison...). i just assume that there was a new virus (obviously it doesn't necessarily have to be a new virus or w/e either).in any case i digress, and i agree with you.[/citation]

You do know that even though Linux/Unix has a very very small market share on desktop computers, when it comes to servers they have a big percentage. The market share of these two OS on servers are bigger than Microsoft. So there goes you're theory. Has many hackers have proved on security events is that the Mac OS X usually is the easiest to hack. Linux/Unix on the other hand are the hardest.

A virus almost always can't be replicated to another OS. Even some virus that work on a 32 bit windows doesn't work on the 64 bit version.

 

[Greystrokedaoc]

Wow, 7000-9000 times per second...? He could be over-stating?

 

[sonofliberty08]

they learn how to create virus but didn't learn how to disable the error reporting ?

 

[smeker]

Hacker.... pfft... bunch of noobs, thats what they are...
They should know how to block and disable any debugging and communication from or to MS.