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Which product presents a greater threat to corporate/military security, TikTok or Microsoft Windows/Outlook?
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<blockquote data-quote="Jonny Quest" data-source="post: 1031011" data-attributes="member: 99434"><p>From the link posted by [USER=69540]@Digmor Crusher[/USER] the severity of the Outlook security flaw is a 9.8 severity rating, with the number of people using Outlook being at about 400 million, (below link) cp to the active TikTok users being about1 billion (approx 1.5 billion total). So what is worse, TikTok monitoring, data collecting peoples use, or hackers ability to absolutely steal hashed passwords and the like?</p><p></p><p>From that article: <a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-microsoft-outlook-bug-poc-shows-how-easy-it-is-to-exploit/" target="_blank">Critical Microsoft Outlook bug PoC shows how easy it is to exploit</a></p><p><em>The issue is a privilege escalation vulnerability with a 9.8 severity rating that affects all versions of Microsoft Outlook on Windows.</em></p><p><em>An attacker can use it to steal NTLM credentials by simply sending the target a malicious email. No user interaction is needed as exploitation occurs when Outlook is open and the reminder is triggered on the system.</em></p><p></p><p>From this article: <a href="https://www.demandsage.com/tiktok-user-statistics/" target="_blank">36 TikTok Statistics 2023: How Many Users Are There!</a></p><p><em>With <strong>1 billion active users</strong> spread across 154 countries, TikTok is one of the most popular social media platforms as of 2023. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>From this article: </em>[URL unfurl="true"]https://financesonline.com/number-of-email-users/[/URL]</p><p><em>Gmail is the most popular with 1.5 billion active global users (Androidpolice). This is followed by Outlook with 400 million; roughly a quarter of Gmail’s numbers. Yahoo! Mail closes the third spot with nearly 230 million active users.</em></p><p></p><p>So, it is an intriguing thread posted by MuzzMelbourne <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite109" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jonny Quest, post: 1031011, member: 99434"] From the link posted by [USER=69540]@Digmor Crusher[/USER] the severity of the Outlook security flaw is a 9.8 severity rating, with the number of people using Outlook being at about 400 million, (below link) cp to the active TikTok users being about1 billion (approx 1.5 billion total). So what is worse, TikTok monitoring, data collecting peoples use, or hackers ability to absolutely steal hashed passwords and the like? From that article: [URL='https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-microsoft-outlook-bug-poc-shows-how-easy-it-is-to-exploit/']Critical Microsoft Outlook bug PoC shows how easy it is to exploit[/URL] [I]The issue is a privilege escalation vulnerability with a 9.8 severity rating that affects all versions of Microsoft Outlook on Windows. An attacker can use it to steal NTLM credentials by simply sending the target a malicious email. No user interaction is needed as exploitation occurs when Outlook is open and the reminder is triggered on the system.[/I] From this article: [URL='https://www.demandsage.com/tiktok-user-statistics/']36 TikTok Statistics 2023: How Many Users Are There![/URL] [I]With [B]1 billion active users[/B] spread across 154 countries, TikTok is one of the most popular social media platforms as of 2023. From this article: [/I][URL unfurl="true"]https://financesonline.com/number-of-email-users/[/URL] [I]Gmail is the most popular with 1.5 billion active global users (Androidpolice). This is followed by Outlook with 400 million; roughly a quarter of Gmail’s numbers. Yahoo! Mail closes the third spot with nearly 230 million active users.[/I] So, it is an intriguing thread posted by MuzzMelbourne :) [/QUOTE]
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