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Microsoft's Security Development Process Under CC License

Posted by timothy on from the share-nicely dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The H Online writes: 'Microsoft has placed its process for secure software development under a Creative Commons License. The company hopes that this will lead to more developers utilising its process for programming software more securely across the entire product lifecycle ...'"

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  1. Re:Oh boy... by RobertM1968 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    No, it does not. A standard user infection that utilizes privilege escalation (exploits), then becomes the same as one installed when an admin was logged in. There have been numerous.

    Here's an example of one escalation - and NOT a big (or prominent) one, that was only partially fixed.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatter_attack

    There are bigger and worse ones. Now perhaps my statements make more sense.

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