Microsoft, In Charge of Cybercrime? Funny.
Windows has long been a hacker’s favorite target. Now Microsoft called for a Cybercrime Framework. With IE market share crashing like a BSOD and PowerPoint making the military stupid, Microsoft is laughing. Let’s laugh with them, or cry, or run scared….
Microsoft Windows has long been a hacker’s favorite target. The majority of computers have Windows as the operating system. Microsoft OS is the low hanging, easy-to-hack, fruit.
According to Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report Volume 8, the company’s software scanned some 500 million PCs worldwide in the second half of 2009. Of those, Microsoft caught and cleaned 1.7 million more infected PCs in the second half than it did in the first half of last year. However, despite Microsoft tooting their own horn, their growing successes in removing malware from infected PCs is but a small dent in a larger trend of ballooning cyber threats and scams.
