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Microsoft's Security Disclosures Come Under Fire

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the full-and-we-mean-full dept.

Old Banana writes "Is Microsoft silently fixing security vulnerabilities and deliberately obfuscating details about patches in its monthly security bulletins? Matthew Murphy, a security researcher who has worked closely with the MSRC (Microsoft Security Response Center) in the past, is accusing the software maker of 'misleading' customers by not clearly spelling out exactly what is being patched in the MS06-015 bulletin released on April 11."

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  1. Hidden DRM? by Clazzy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Remember when there was an update to Windows Media Player that added those DRM module things and there was a big outcry? I may be acting a bit paranoid, but isn't it remotely possible that Microsoft could sneak in other restrictions like this without users ever knowing?

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    If we can hit that bull's-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... Checkmate.
  2. Here is the problem by IntelliAdmin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The big problem when they do this is compatibility testing. I work at numerous companies where we need to read through each patch to see what they 'fix'. Now when Microsoft does this we will just have to guess what they might break in a legacy application deployed across the world.