nsane.forums Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 When Microsoft released the highly-publicized patch for Internet Explorer yesterday, the software giant admitted that it was aware of the flaw for quite some time. "As part of that investigation, we also determined that the vulnerability was the same as a vulnerability responsibly reported to us and confirmed in early September," Redmond disclosed on the Microsoft Security Response Center. Does this mean that Microsoft could have prevented the Chinese attacks on the 33 companies by releasing patches for Internet Explorer sooner, or at the very least, that the browser would not have been one of the vectors used? Not exactly, we learned after contacting three different security experts."When the vulnerability was disclosed to Microsoft in last December, there wasn't any known exploit in the wild," Chenxi Wang, Principal Analyst of Security and Risk Management at Forrester Research, told Ars. "Hence Microsoft scheduled to release the patch in February, which was the next available security bulletin date. But this attack came up before they released the update. That's why they issued the out of band fix. To be fair, Microsoft sees a lot of vulnerabilities, and you don't know which one actually would result in an attack." In short, Microsoft did what it always does: work on a fix, but don't tell the public until it is absolutely necessary to warn them, and then release it as soon as possible. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Typical of M$ not to act unless people are pressuring them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 I think its A.D.D... I would have it too if I had that much processing power to play with.. what was I saying.. OH yeah.. probably have my hands all over it... Totally forget about something so regular and minuscule.. like a patch.. LOL.. my where does the time go.. Hold on I have to get ready to roll out Windows 8.. you've seen it right... LOL... OH and we have cool mouse devices this time around.. reminds me I have to work on the thermal detection and imaging.. .................After awhile you start to sound like 'The Aviator'.. way of the future.. the future... way of da future.. way of the future.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted January 23, 2010 Administrator Share Posted January 23, 2010 Day by day, I've started feeling that IE would be ranked as one of the most unsafe application ever. And some guys still love it. Hail :notworthy: Firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toshiro Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 Day by day, I've started feeling that IE would be ranked as one of the most unsafe application ever. And some guys still love it. Hail :notworthy: Firefox.FF runs on Windows.. Windows is made by MS, so.... FF is running on an unsafe app.. that means FF phails also? :lol: :fear: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted January 23, 2010 Administrator Share Posted January 23, 2010 I didn't bring MS or Windows into the matter. :lmao:Even so, I really recommend switching to Ubuntu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toshiro Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 I didn't bring MS or Windows into the matter. :lmao:Even so, I really recommend switching to Ubuntu.WOW, i really thought I read it .. :lmao:Well.. still IE is made by MS..Aaah forget it :POff to bedzz it's 3 am here :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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