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MS To Share Early Flaw Data With Governments

Posted by kdawson on from the for-your-eyes-only dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "Microsoft today announced plans to share pre-patch details on software vulnerabilities with governments around the world under a new program aimed at securing critical infrastructure and government assets from hacker attacks. The program, codenamed Omega, features a 'Defensive Information Sharing Program' that will offer government entities at the national level technical information on vulnerabilities that are being updated in their products." There's a stream the bad guys would dearly love to tap into.

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  1. National Cybersecurity Undermined by birukun · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Time to move .gov off of Microsoft entirely. This negates some of the protection afforded by our nation in the event of a cyberwar.

    Not like anyone can really win a cyberwar, it will be decided by who owns more bots......

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  2. "Securing critical infrastructure?" by cgenman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because the best place for a secure critical infrastructure is on windows platforms. How else are you going to protect against Word Macro viruses?

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