In yesterday’s patches from Adobe, it was interesting to note the following in the acknowledgments section: Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team Indeed, if you read through Tavis’ collection of exploit reports, you’ll find he’s frequently requesting acknowledgement as “Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team” or “Tavis Ormandy of Google, Inc.” It seems [...]

Supporters of Tavis Ormandy believe that his decision to spoon-feed attackers a play-by-play exploit to infect your computers was justified. And they’re upset with what they deem bad press. Here are the two primary beefs they have: 1. Microsoft refused to give in to Tavis’ demand to set their development schedule. Rebuttal: Microsoft has customers [...]