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Google Researcher Issues How-To On Attacking XP

Posted by timothy on from the now-get-to-the-next-phone-booth dept.

theodp writes "A Google engineer Thursday published attack code that exploits a zero-day vulnerability in Windows XP, giving hackers a new way to hijack and infect systems with malware. But other security experts objected to the way the Google engineer disclosed the bug — just five days after it was reported to Microsoft — and said the move is more evidence of the ongoing, and increasingly public, war between the two giants."

2 of 348 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Negative. by armanox · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "Ormandy admitted that he reported the vulnerability to Microsoft only five days ago -- on Saturday, June 5 -- but said he decided to go public because of its severity, and because he believed Microsoft would have otherwise dismissed his analysis."

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    I'm starting to think GNU is the problem with "GNU/Linux" these days.
  2. Don't Be Evil, huh? by kriston · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "You can make money without doing evil."
    Really?
    How's that working out for you?

    http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/tenthings.html

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    Kriston