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Yes.. Windows XP had an unending list of vulnerabilities, software patch policies were often horrible, hardware with outdated software was everywhere. Back then
by tinco 7y ago
Yes.. Windows XP had an unending list of vulnerabilities, software patch policies were often horrible, hardware with outdated software was everywhere. Back then if you would call yourself a hacker or a hack group it would mean you had multiple 0day exploits under your sleeve for operating systems, browsers and web apps.
Even if you were just a lowly scriptkiddie, because of the bad update policies you could just go to an exploit website, like metasploit is now, and try out the list of old exploits on any target you were interested in. A friend of mine had 40.000 routers in some Scandinavian country because their ISP shipped them to customers with a 4 year old BSD release that had known vulnerabilities in it.
- ailideex 7y agoMaybe I am just pedantic but "many things" != "anything" and the existence of vulnerable systems does not invalidate the existence of secure systems.
- jotm 7y agoGotta admit, it was fun "hacking" all the WPS-enabled access points around me.
- pjmlp 7y agoAnd thanks to that Microsoft has put in place several security development based procedures that still aren't fully followed on the FOSS world. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/securityengineering/sdl https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/securityengineering/sdl https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/michael_howard/2006/05/19/a-brief-introduction-to-the-standard-annotation-language-sal/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/michael_howard/2006/05/19/a... https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/how-to-use-native-run-time-checks?view=vs-2019 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/how-t... https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Kernel-Internals/Windows-Sandbox/ba-p/301849 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Kernel-Intern...