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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. The Bad Guys by Arancaytar · · Score: 4, Funny

    with governments

    Sounds like they don't need to tap. :P

  2. Unfortunately... by brian0918 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unfortunately for the government, the Omega program is only in alpha release.

    1. Re:Unfortunately... by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's no surprise that they named it after Omega, the big gaping Goatse of Greek letters.

  3. Re:WIKILEAKS by fredc97 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually an early information about security patches from Microsoft looks like that:

    Product Affected: all versions of windows
    Risk: Remote code execution
    Rating: Critical
    Reboot required: You betcha

    Description: This vulnerability is even more serious than the previous 10 000 other Critical software updates, if 0 were the highest priority on a scale 1 to 10, this one would rate -10 000, see that's like super duper uber hyper critical times 3.

  4. You know you've been reading /. too much... by Anachragnome · · Score: 3, Funny

    The first time I read that headline, my brain completely omitted the word "data" without skipping a beat.

    It sounded par for the course, I guess.