What is this "Weird garbled Windows 7 update"?
Looks like microsoft are owned. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/30/windows_update_glitch/ ---- Windows 7 users were left scratching their heads on Wednesday when a mysterious garbled patch appeared in Windows Update, origins unknown. ... Its description mostly contained garbled text. Links for more information, help, and support were filled in with gibberish URLs with ".gov," ".mil," and ".edu" domains. ... The Register poked Microsoft about the issue, and a spokesman told us: "We incorrectly published a test update and are in the process of removing it." ---- "test update" containing .gov,.mil and .edu URLs, lol...
Maybe not owned, but at least without accidentally-press-publish protection. (if it's this easy to mispublish a test update, how hard would it be for an employee to publish an exploit?)
On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 04:14:26PM +0200, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote:
Maybe not owned, but at least without accidentally-press-publish protection.
(if it's this easy to mispublish a test update, how hard would it be for an employee to publish an exploit?)
Feel free to forward this to whomever it may concern. As I blogged, why should their "alleged test updates" contain .gov/.mil/.edu domains? As an aside, the "garbage text" might just be some easy to break ASCII? friendly cypher/obfuscation. (certainly sufficiently long OTP would decrypt it to whatever, but something short is not expected to decrypt it to (l33t?) English IMHO).
Dnia piątek, 2 października 2015 18:05:24 Georgi Guninski pisze:
On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 04:14:26PM +0200, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote:
Maybe not owned, but at least without accidentally-press-publish protection.
(if it's this easy to mispublish a test update, how hard would it be for an employee to publish an exploit?)
Feel free to forward this to whomever it may concern.
As I blogged, why should their "alleged test updates" contain .gov/.mil/.edu domains?
As an aside, the "garbage text" might just be some easy to break ASCII? friendly cypher/obfuscation.
Base52? Can't be bothered to write a base52 decoder. ;) -- Pozdrawiam, Michał "rysiek" Woźniak Zmieniam klucz GPG :: http://rys.io/pl/147 GPG Key Transition :: http://rys.io/en/147
On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 06:21:47PM +0200, rysiek wrote:
As an aside, the "garbage text" might just be some easy to break ASCII? friendly cypher/obfuscation.
Base52? Can't be bothered to write a base52 decoder. ;)
Found this on reddit. There is log in the thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/3mykv1/weird_windows_update/ Weird Windows update gYxseNjwafVPfgsoHnzLblmmAxZUiOnGcchqEAEwjyxwjUIfpXfJQcdLapTmFaqHGCFsdvpLarmPJLOZYMEILGNIPwNOgEazuBVJcyVjBRL Installation date: 30/09/2015 12:52 Installation status: Failed Error details: Code 8024600A Update type: Important qQMphgyOoFUxFLfNprOUQpHS More information: [https:]//hckSLpGtvi.PguhWDz.fuVOl.gov [https:]//jNt.JFnFA.Jigf.xnzMQAFnZ.edu Help and Support: [https:]//IIKaR.ktBDARxd.plepVV.PGetGeG.lfIYQIHCN.mil
Suppose it's a way to mass-distribute a dead 'canary', offed by someone in the company who knows something the company wasn't willing to kill it's 'canary' over? Just rumormongering... RR On 10/01/2015 11:08 PM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
Looks like microsoft are owned.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/30/windows_update_glitch/ ---- Windows 7 users were left scratching their heads on Wednesday when a mysterious garbled patch appeared in Windows Update, origins unknown. ... Its description mostly contained garbled text. Links for more information, help, and support were filled in with gibberish URLs with ".gov," ".mil," and ".edu" domains. ... The Register poked Microsoft about the issue, and a spokesman told us: "We incorrectly published a test update and are in the process of removing it." ----
"test update" containing .gov,.mil and .edu URLs, lol...
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