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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. people by crsuperman34 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As every black hat knows: you will not need to compromise the software. You just have to compromise one of the people working for the government in question.