Google Releases More Windows Bugs

An anonymous reader writes: Just days after Google angered Microsoft by releasing information about a Windows security flaw, they've now released two more. "The more serious of the two allows an attacker to impersonate an authorized user, and then decrypt or encrypt data on a Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 device. Google reported that bug to Microsoft on Oct. 17, 2014, and made some background information and a proof-of-concept exploit public on Thursday. Project Zero is composed of several Google security engineers who investigate not only the company's own software, but that of other vendors as well. After reporting a flaw, Project Zero starts a 90-day clock, then automatically publicly posts details and sample attack code if the bug has not been patched." Microsoft says there's no evidence these flaws have been successfully exploited.

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Hope the trend continues.

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

I wish Apple would also pitch in and find and publish bugs in both Windows and Android. And Microsoft to retaliate by finding and reporting bugs in Android and Apple. In the end we as consumers will benefit. This should be come the norm. No longer minor players report possible bugs and the clock does not run till the company "accepts" that there is a bug.

Free markets! Competition!! That is what made America, what it is.

I wish such fierce competition exists in all spheres of the economy.

Re:Playing with fire...

[TemporalBeing]

MS still holds a lot of Android patents. They can easily do an Apple and forbid use of them, which will completely paralyze Android.

What you mean all those patents that the Chinese outted and nearly the entire tech world found to be not relevant save about as many as you can count on your hands? Yeah, that's really going to stop Android...