We're past the era where denial of service simply happens because kids are looking for a good time.
"Dan Kaminsky" is an American security researcher. He is the Chief Scientist of White Ops, a firm specializing in detecting malware activity via JavaScript. He has worked for Cisco, Avaya, and IOActive, where he was the Director of Penetration Testing. He is known among computer security experts for his work on DNS cache poisoning, and for showing that the Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal/Sony Rootkit had infected at least 568,200 computers and for his talks at the Black Hat Briefings.
In June 2010, Kaminsky released Interpolique, a beta framework for addressing injection attacks such as SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting in a manner comfortable to developers.
On June 16, 2010, he was named by ICANN as one of the Trusted Community Representatives for the DNSSEC root.
More Dan Kaminsky on Wikipedia.It is unquestionable that Sony's code has gotten into military and government networks, and not necessarily just U.S. military and government networks.
The data shows that this is most likely a hundreds-of-thousands to millions of victims issue.
Users have had the opportunity to upgrade for a long time. It's unlikely that they would choose to do so now as a result of this announcement.
We are at the point where all the obvious things we tell Microsoft to do, they already do it.
It's not perfect, but compared to the competition, they've made significant progress.
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