The fraction of the SP in the Second Chamber want the government to Microsoft to answer calls about leaks in Windows. This is clear from parliamentary Questions that SP-Mp Gesthuizen sets as a result of media coverage on Tweakers.net.
The SP Member of parliament wants the government guidelines addressed critical vulnerabilities in operating systems like Windows and software such as Microsoft Word to avoid. Sharon Gesthuizen says that it is aware that software always leaks can contain. “It is high time that software manufacturers take steps to prevent that from software applications such as Word, basic parts of the operating system against the will of the user manipulated,” said the Member of parliament against Tweakers.net.
With leak in Word refers Gesthuizen to the malware Duqu, which strangers have of spying on companies in the Netherlands. This was the likely supplier of the army, unveiled Tweakers.net Friday. Duqu is a variant of Stuxnet, the virus that in Iran, computers in nuclear power plants are infected. Stuxnet is known as the most sophisticated malware ever created.
Gesthuizen wants of the responsible minister to know whether Duqu much impact in the Netherlands, or the excluded, is that Duqu is aimed at, for example, Dutch utilities or military installations, and whom the trojan has made. Gesthuizen will the questions are likely to be Tuesday during question time.
Duqu makes use of a flaw in Windows, that works through the rendering of TrueType fonts in the word processor Word. The vulnerability allows an attacker code at kernel-level to perform. The vulnerability can, probably, also in other programs than Word to be abused; and even on websites. It is not clear whether the Word method, also in other cases is applied. The Windows Server version without a gui is not affected by the vulnerability, because that no fonts need to parse.