{"id":660,"date":"2006-01-06T03:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2006\/01\/06\/microsofts-pr-blunder\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:50:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:50:54","slug":"microsofts-pr-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2006\/01\/06\/microsofts-pr-blunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s PR Blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to write about this major security flaw in Windows, but <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.holtz.com\/index.php\/weblog\/microsofts_pr_blunder\/\">Shel Holtz<\/a> has already done so&#8230;and I couldn&#8217;t have said it better myself. So click over to Shel&#8217;s blog, A Shel of my former self, to read all about it.<\/p>\n<p>Just one thing to add. (This will only make sense after you&#8217;ve read Shel&#8217;s post.) I&#8217;ve been following this danger since it was first discovered, via a very cool Podcast I subscribe to, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grc.com\/securitynow.htm\">Security Now<\/a>. If you haven&#8217;t listened to it, you should consider it. It&#8217;s an incredibly valuable collection of programs on how to safeguard your computer and your life from the bad guys out there.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, it&#8217;s nerdy, but I find it fascinating. And the host, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leoville.com\/\">Leo Laporte<\/a>, and security expert <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grc.com\/default.htm\">Steve Gibson<\/a> do a fabulous job of making all this complicated stuff interesting and compelling. I&#8217;m addicted. And they were all over this Microsoft problem long before the company said a word. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grc.com\/sn\/notes-020.htm\">this posting<\/a> on Steve&#8217;s GRC website for all the details.<\/p>\n<p>Update &#8212; Late Thursday, Microsoft saw the light and released their official patch for the WMF problem. So if you&#8217;re a Windows user, make sure your automatic update is working or go to <a href=\"http:\/\/update.microsoft.com\/\">Microsoft&#8217;s Update site<\/a> to get the fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to write about this major security flaw in Windows, but Shel Holtz has already done so&#8230;and I couldn&#8217;t have said it better myself. So click over to Shel&#8217;s blog, A Shel of my former self, to read all about it. Just one thing to add. (This will only make sense after you&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-aE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1629,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/1629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}