Leaky Windows
With its immense customer base already angry over Microsoft's lengthy patch process, the company now has to worry if those customers face new vulnerabilities derived from the source-code distribution. Further, customer concern over known operating system holes was heightened with last week's announcement of major new Windows and Internet Explorer security flaws.
Those particular flaws had only been--belatedly--admitted to by Microsoft when their discoverer, eEye Digital Security, announced awareness of even more extant vulnerabilities.
Unsurprisingly, within days of the announcement, the first hacker exploit code began circulating.
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