Michael Scott

USA

Designer

In the article it states that "Sans, the security organisation, is calling on operating system makers such as Apple and Microsoft to provide device driver security patches, which they do not do at present." which is not entirely true because Apple and from what I remember Microsoft do include some device drivers in their built-in software update schemes. I have personally seen updates for video cards and apple wireless devise drivers (called airport) on OSX. On OSX these drivers are usually bundled in the a .X system update. On windows 2000/XP there is a section for device drivers in the update control pane. Check for yourself if you don't believe me. (Like I want Microsoft to be in charge of devise driver updates for third party products anyway. They have enough problems with there own software as it is.) So what's up with the misinformation?

Also could you have picked two worst devices, DVD-Rom and Monitors, to use as examples in a security article. What happens in terms of security if I don't update my monitor driver? .... Nothing! What about my DVD-Rom driver? .... If an intruder is using my physical computer at my desk in my office; I have bigger problems than DVD drivers. This article is leave a lot to be desired.