James F. Booth

For more than 25 years, James Booth has provided consulting and legal services to telecommunications carriers and to enterprise companies that manage their own telecommunications networks. Since June of 2009 he has also served as General Counsel of Spread Networks, LLC, which is the industry leader in the construction and operation of low latency high speed networks. Before joining Spread he was General Counsel for OnFiber Communications, a competitive telecommunications provider, and was the sole attorney for Qwest Communications International in support of its construction of an 18,800 mile fiber optic network spanning the United States. Earlier he was lead counsel for U S WEST in its wireless and cable television ventures in the United States, Europe and Hong Kong.

Thursday, June 19, 2014

Google's Famous Security Guru Found An Embarrassing Hole In Microsoft's Products



On Tuesday, Microsoft warned that it was issuing an emergency patch to fix a dangerous flaw in its software.

This is notable for a few reasons. Microsoft rarely releases these kinds of urgent patches, only nine of them so far in 2014. It normally saves all patches for one mega patch day once a month.
The software in question affects almost all of Microsoft's family of security software. That means that the software Microsoft designed to protect computers from hackers can be hacked. In this case, it can be turned off, and from there, the hacker could do more harm.

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Google-s-Famous-Security-Guru-Found-An-5563005.php
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