[Am-info] Microsoft could face security failure liability

[Fred A. Miller]

Microsoft could face security failure liability
Posted October 3, 6:10 a.m. Pacific Time

Last month, Steven Adler, senior security strategist for Microsoft Corp. 
in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), stood up before a crowd 
of company executives and IT professionals and apologized for the 
damage and losses caused by the recent onslaught of computer viruses 
that have attacked his company's software.

Adler's apology, made at the Gartner Security Summit in London, raises 
the question of just how liable the world's largest software provider 
is for security vulnerabilities affecting its customers. A lawsuit 
filed against Microsoft Thursday by a Los Angeles woman who suffered 
identity theft and claimed that the prevalence of Microsoft software 
"creates a global security risk" serves to heighten the question. The 
woman is seeking class-action certification and if that is granted the 
case could then include other Microsoft software users.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/10/03/MSliable_1.html

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