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Posted Saturday 9th June 2007 15:52 GMT
What went wrong with the headline guys? Next you'll probably forget your hatred of Kevin Warwick and write a nice review of his new book.
Yahoo! patch squashes messenger bug
Model? #
Posted Saturday 9th June 2007 15:52 GMT
"Maiffret, who holds up Microsoft as a model for responsible vulnerability handling"
ie let months go past before issuing a patch.
Bad Yahoo! Released a fix in 24 hrs.
re: Model? #
Posted Sunday 10th June 2007 17:19 GMT
"Bad Yahoo! Released a fix in 24 hrs"
No, they didn't. They released a fix 24 hours after a hacker had already exploited the bug. They had longer than that to fix it. Not that I'm claiming they're slow or anything. But not releasing a patch for months *and* not telling anyone what to exploit seems more responsible than quickly releasing a patch, but giving hackers a fighting chance at exploiting it first.
re: Model? #
Posted Monday 11th June 2007 03:03 GMT
How many times has MS been prompted to publish a patch after a "zero day" exploit? A patch that they've been sitting on?
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