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As Maiffret told The Star last week, this one was "as nasty as they come." To make a technical explanation simple, he figured out a way to exploit a Windows XP feature called Universal Plug and Play, giving him the ability to access a person's hard drive through the Internet, hijack it, and ultimately destroy, change or steal the applications and data within.
Instead of immediately disclosing yet another Billy blunder to the world, Maiffret and his two buddies, Ryan Permeh and Riley Hassell, decided to give the software behemoth a courtesy "heads up."
More than that, they helped Microsoft design a software patch that fixes the flaw, making it easy for the Redmond, Wash.-based company to combat the problem once it was publicly announced last Thursday.
As Maiffret told The Star last week, this one was "as nasty as they come." To make a technical explanation simple, he figured out a way to exploit a Windows XP feature called Universal Plug and Play, giving him the ability to access a person's hard drive through the Internet, hijack it, and ultimately destroy, change or steal the applications and data within.
Instead of immediately disclosing yet another Billy blunder to the world, Maiffret and his two buddies, Ryan Permeh and Riley Hassell, decided to give the software behemoth a courtesy "heads up."
More than that, they helped Microsoft design a software patch that fixes the flaw, making it easy for the Redmond, Wash.-based company to combat the problem once it was publicly announced last Thursday.
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