Microsoft is now selling third-parties access to its Windows 10 telemetry data via subscription.
Microsoft struck a deal with security company FireEye recently according to a report on Australian news magazin[e] Arn [sic] which gives FireEye access to all Windows 10 Telemetry data.
The report states that FireEye in return will provide Microsoft with the company's iSIGHT Intelligence software for Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection on Windows 10 devices.
[...] Windows Defender is built-in to Windows 10 and enabled by default unless other security software is recognized by the operating system.
[...] The news article suggests that the partnership benefits Microsoft, and specifically the reputation and credibility of the commercial version of Windows Defender.
A press release by FireEye on November 3, 2016 provides additional details on the deal. The company's iSIGHT Intelligence software is available through Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (WDATP) but not the free version of Windows Defender.
WDATP customers gain access to several technical indicators that are provided by the software. These include the main motivation of the attacker, related tools, information about target sectors and geographies, and a description of the actor and operation.
According to the report on ARN, security teams may also get their hands on Windows 10 Telemetry data via subscription billing models.
Third-parties will get access to telemetry data of all Windows 10 devices. An overview of what that may include is provided on this Technet page.
Neither FireEye, Microsoft or ARN reveal details on the range of Telemetry data that FireEye gains access to.
(Score: 1) by metarox on Friday November 25 2016, @06:16PM
What is needed is a bot/app I can install on my machine that will browse a whitelisted list of websites of all types and randomly click on shit/links/products so that in the end it looks like I like everything in the world and poisons that data well. Make that working randomly at different times daily without going nuts on bandwidth and we'll have a winner. Might be more difficult to pull on a phone, but why not restrict it to wifi only for data caps.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by el_oscuro on Saturday November 26 2016, @12:50AM
#!/bin/bash
cat urls.txt | sed -e "s/!PRODUCT_ID!/$RANDOM/" | while read url
do
wget $url
done
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