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Microsoft Opens Its Security Research Cookbooks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-cook-me-up-some-pie dept.

greg65535 writes "Today Microsoft launched a blog about the internals of their IT security research and patch development process. There are already some posts that you will not find in the official security bulletins or KB articles. One of the posts says, 'We periodically identify workarounds or mitigations like this that we can't use for official guidance because they're either too nuanced or have some exception cases. When we discover something potentially useful but are uncomfortable listing it in the bulletin, we'll do our best to describe it here in this blog.' It looks like Microsoft is making an effort to become more 'open' in the area of security research and communication."

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  1. Something tells me... by ZeroSerenity · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That this will just cause more issues than help any by giving away vulnerabilities in Windows. Just me thinking.

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  2. Re:Microsoft Security Protocols by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Microsoft and security? Proprietary software and security? Talk about oxymorons. When I and other computer professionals think about security, we think about powerful, open source software, not closed source solutions like Microsoft's. Am I right guys?

  3. Efforts and real change. by Erris · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    it definitely is the case that Microsoft *is* making an effort...not just looking like.

    Fab, M$ is making an effort to look more open. They will be open when they publish their source code. That will be useful when they allow people to modify that code for their own purposes and share those modifications.

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