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Kaspersky has revealed how it tracked an exploit developer's debug signature over months to find and report to Microsoft a dangerous, then zero-day vulnerability in Silverlight that could have placed millions of users at risk of compromise. The Russian security outfit reported (CVE-2016-0034) the bug late last year which was …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Grammar or spin?

    Kaspersky has revealed how it tracked an exploit developer's debug signature over months to find and report to Microsoft a dangerous, then zero-day vulnerability in Silverlight that could have which placed millions of users at risk of compromise.

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  2. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge

    Silverlight

    Should that die the same sort of death that flash is?

    MS still try to get me to install this POS. It might have been ok in 2010 but in 2016? Please MS retire it NOW and stop trying to get systems as yet uninfected to become infected.

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    1. Charles 9
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      Re: Silverlight

      No chance. There are plenty of systems that REQUIRE Silverlight to run, just as there are expensive systems that REQUIRE Flash to run. Unless there's an exploit that can run their damage into 8 or 9 figures, the accountants will have no justification to switch out the expensive piece of kit.

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  3. dajames

    ... zero-day vulnerability in Silverlight that could have placed millions of users at risk ...

    ... zero-day vulnerability in Silverlight that placed both users at risk ...

    FTFY!

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  4. earl grey
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    i won't let silverlight install

    fixed

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