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by nisa 2640 days ago
I guess it's because Defender ATP is basically some kind of cloud-service for security and because everyone is running Windows for everything it's targeted at managers or so. I have no idea how useful it is, but I guess they have some advanced techniques to detect certain attacks (like this one, or the dropped DoublePulsar) - If you have to defend some important Active Directory Setup it's probably not a bad deal.

It's still ironic that Huawei get's some free audit for their stuff now and it's sold as they are bad, while everything is terrible - I won't install Logitech software after this epic bug here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=16...
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iliketosleep 2640 days ago
I just looked into that Logitech issue, it's interesting to note that contact was made with Logitech engineers in September. The engineers provided assurance that the issue was understood and would be fixed. Months pass... updates were released, none of which contained the security fix. December arrives and finally the vulnerability is made public, picked up by the media, and Logitech releases a fix within days.

It's a familiar pattern. If a large company were a biological organism, one of it's main pain signals would be negative PR. Prod the beast in other ways and it doesn't respond.

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pbhjpbhj 2640 days ago
Wow, that Logitech app is crazy huh, they just opened a port from all their Logitech Options users to anyone enabling them to make a remote keylogger.

MS must have written a huge exposé on that one, can't seem to find it on their Security site though.

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mastax 2640 days ago
Google writes about the bugs they find, Microsoft writes about the bugs they find. What's strange to you?
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pbhjpbhj 2640 days ago
Meh, I just suspect they're not as forthcoming about bugs they find for their preferred hardware partners no matter how crazily bad they are. Partialism like that makes me distrust them, perhaps my skepticism falls the wrong way here, maybe I'm reading an undercurrent that's not there.
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HeWhoLurksLate 2634 days ago
I at least trust that the things they report on to be accurate.
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