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  2. Embrace, extend, and extinguish - Wikipedia

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    "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE), [1] also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate", [2] is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found [3] was used internally by Microsoft [4] to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used open standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and using the differences to strongly disadvantage ...

  3. Platform envelopment - Wikipedia

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    Platform envelopment refers to one platform provider moving into another one's market, combining its own functionality with the target's, to form a multi-platform bundle. [1] The markets which evolve rapidly are rich in enveloping opportunities and the companies in these markets are under the continuous threat of becoming obsolete.

  4. Sasser (computer worm) - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft's analysis of the worm indicates that it may also spread through port 139. Several variants called Sasser.B, Sasser.C, and Sasser.D appeared within days (with the original named Sasser.A). The LSASS vulnerability was patched by Microsoft in the April 2004 installment of its monthly security packages, prior to the release of the worm.

  5. Blaster (computer worm) - Wikipedia

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    The damage to Microsoft was minimal as the site targeted was windowsupdate.com, rather than windowsupdate.microsoft.com, to which the former was redirected. Microsoft temporarily shut down the targeted site to minimize potential effects from the worm. [citation needed] The worm's executable, MSBlast.exe, [10] contains two messages. The first reads:

  6. Envelopment - Wikipedia

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    Envelopment is the military tactic of seizing objectives in the enemy's rear with the goal of destroying specific enemy forces and denying them the ability to withdraw. Rather than attacking an enemy head-on, as in a frontal assault , an envelopment seeks to exploit the enemy's flanks , attacking them from multiple directions and avoiding where ...

  7. DoublePulsar - Wikipedia

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    DoublePulsar is a backdoor implant tool developed by the U.S. National Security Agency's (NSA) Equation Group that was leaked by The Shadow Brokers in early 2017. [3] [citation needed] The tool infected more than 200,000 Microsoft Windows computers in only a few weeks, [4] [5] [3] [6] [7] and was used alongside EternalBlue in the May 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack.

  8. Code Red (computer worm) - Wikipedia

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    It attacked computers running Microsoft's IIS web server. It was the first large-scale, mixed-threat attack to successfully target enterprise networks. [1] The Code Red worm was first discovered and researched by eEye Digital Security employees Marc Maiffret and Ryan Permeh when it exploited a vulnerability discovered by Riley Hassell.

  9. United States v. Microsoft Corp. - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft defended itself in the public arena, arguing that its attempts to "innovate" were under attack by rival companies jealous of its success, and that government litigation was merely their pawn. A full-page ad appeared in The Washington Post and The New York Times on June 2, 1999, created by a think tank called The Independent Institute ...