@USBTypeSteve now it is up to us as security professionals to embarrass them into reversion.
Background: To this day - I am constantly irritated by cyber threat intel organizations that need to have some cutesy nomenclature for naming threat actors. Vendor A calls this group “Energetic Panda” and Vendor B calls this group “APT 420” and Vendor C calls this group “Syphilitic Donkey.” Makes briefing the C suite on actual threats to the enterprise annoying and more challenging than it needs to be.
But I digress.
Solution: I suggest we take this same angst and weaponize it against Microsoft. A simple random word association database can be mapped to KB numbers, of the form Adjective-Noun, where all of the nouns in this case are STDs (STIs for the Brits).
I believe that adoption in the infosec community would likely be organic, given that most of us like a good immature chuckle from time to time.
And I imagine conversations like
"Have you patched against Aggressive Chlamydia yet? I hear that has some critical updates that fix that broke in the Debilitating Herpes!"
"No - you have to patch for Unbearable Gonorrhea first and we've seen that break our production MS SQL DBs hard. There is a workaround, and we've been promised that this will be fixed with Cantankerous Chancroid due out next Tuesday."
#MSPatch #MSKB #PatchTuesday #SyphiliticDonkey