Well, days later we now have an Official patch for the .wmf vulnerability.<\/p>\n
If the mere existence of such sloppy code doesn’t infuriate you, consider this: Every time you upgraded your Windows operating system, you paid again for that same busted DLL.<\/em><\/p>\n CTOs and CIOs shouldn’t be worrying about how to get past this particular crisis.<\/p>\n They shoud instead be considering two much more important questions:<\/p>\n First, what else is vulnerable that no one (yet) knows about?<\/p>\n Second, what would the impact on your business be if tomorrow you couldn’t run the OS you’re currently using?<\/p>\n My belief in the superiority of the open-source software model is no secret, so I’m going to pass on this opportunity to do some (well-deserved) Microsoft-bashing. <\/p>\n The most important point is this: If you’re overly dependent on a single point of failure– any<\/strong> single point of failure– you should be thinking about contingency plans. <\/p>\n In this case, a solution such as creating bootable Linux or FreeBSD CDs, or booting a small distro from the network, may mean the difference between hours of downtime and continuing to function. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, days later we now have an Official patch for the .wmf vulnerability. If the mere existence of such sloppy code doesn’t infuriate you, consider this: Every time you upgraded your Windows operating system, you paid again for that same busted DLL. CTOs and CIOs shouldn’t be worrying about how to get past this particular […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}