Ilfak Guilfanov is far from a household name.
But that may soon change as the Russian software developer’s unauthorized Microsoft security patch is increasingly installed onto computers worldwide.
My favorite part:
Did you have contact with Microsoft prior to publishing the unofficial patch?
Guilfanov: No.
Did you install the unofficial patch? My take is that it is probably the same amount of risk as installing a Microsoft patch so why not be protected in the mean time.
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Paul Asadoorian spent time “in the trenches” implementing security programs for a lottery company and then a large university. Paul is offensive, having spent several years as a penetration tester. He is the founder of the Security Weekly podcast network, offering freely available shows on the topics of information security and hacking. As Product Evangelist for Tenable Network Security, Paul built a library of materials on the topic of vulnerability management. When not hacking together embedded systems (or just plain hacking them) or coding silly projects in Python, Paul can be found researching his next set of headphones.Paul Asadoorian spent time “in the trenches” implementing security programs for a lottery company and then a large university. Paul is offensive, having spent several years as a penetration tester. He is the founder of the Security Weekly podcast network, offering freely available shows on the topics of information security and hacking. As Product Evangelist for Tenable Network Security, Paul built a library of materials on the topic of vulnerability management. When not hacking together embedded systems (or just plain hacking them) or coding silly projects in Python, Paul can be found researching his next set of headphones.
