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MS To Share Early Flaw Data With Governments 100

Posted by kdawson
from the for-your-eyes-only dept.
Trailrunner7 writes "Microsoft today announced plans to share pre-patch details on software vulnerabilities with governments around the world under a new program aimed at securing critical infrastructure and government assets from hacker attacks. The program, codenamed Omega, features a 'Defensive Information Sharing Program' that will offer government entities at the national level technical information on vulnerabilities that are being updated in their products." There's a stream the bad guys would dearly love to tap into.
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  • Re:The Bad Guys (Score:3, Informative)

    by Moblaster (521614) on Tuesday May 18 2010, @05:07PM (#32258062)

    Maybe MSFT is still sore about the 3rd NSA key http://bit.ly/avkiLe [bit.ly]

    Thank goodness we can still trust Apple because they make a lot of their computers in China.

  • Sounds like kind of a rip-off (Score:5, Informative)

    by ivandavidoff (969036) on Tuesday May 18 2010, @05:29PM (#32258266)
    MS will provide information only "after our investigative and remediation cycle is completed..." In other words, after the vulnerability is discovered and fixed, and the patch is ready to roll out.

    Then, "disclosure will happen just prior to our security update release cycles."

    So the disclosure amounts to this:

    "Tomorrow's MS Windows Update contains a security patch that fixes a serious vulnerability in your system. Oh, by the way, you have a serious vulnerability in your system."

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