Microsoft security finally hits the news

Well, well, well. With the appearance of the MSBlast worm form of exploit for Microsoft's security compromise (which I've been writing about here for two weeks now) the major news media have finally awoken from their collective slumber and started reporting on the effects this compromise his having. CNET News has a collection of stories, the NY Times reports on it here (requires a login), and the San Jose Mercury News has a story here that is inexplicably bylined from Sweden. Nice to see them catch up.

The CNET coverage includes an piece by Charles Cooper calling Microsoft to task for building insecure software. It's almost a year ago since Terry Gray wrote his 7-Point Plan for Windows Security that, if implemented by Microsoft then, could have alleviated much of this pain.