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Insights Into Microsoft’s Silent Security Patch Practices

Feb 16, 2011 •

Anthony Pell

1 min read

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Microsoft doesn't usually like to talk about how they sometimes silently patch vulnerabilities, so it's a pleasant surprise to see them blog about it on their Security Research & Defense blog. I've written about this subject before, when I came to realize that Microsoft never in their security bulletins identified patched vulnerabilities as internally discovered. I pressed them on it and they were somewhat elliptical in their response, but offline others pointed out that obviously Microsoft was patching other vulnerabilities silently.

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