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Microsoft changing Patch Tuesday process
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| Microsoft is to release fixes for a dozen serious vulnerabilities next
| Tuesday, seven of them ranked critical. But the firm has also announced a
| three-stage process to reducing the effects of future vulnerabilities.
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| [...]
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| To receive the advance notice, firms must have “a significant Microsoft
| customer base” and sign non-disclosure agreements promising to keep the
| details secret.
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http://vista.blorge.com/2008/08/09/microsoft-changing-patch-tuesday-process/
Days ago:
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday to hit users big and hard
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| Patch Tuesday falls relatively late in the month of August 2008, and
| Microsoft has a bumper bundle of bulletins up its corporate sleeve, with no
| less than seven - count 'em, folks, that's seven - critical items.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19911/1054/
Related:
Critical Vulnerability in Microsoft Metrics
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| This is a small subset of all the vulnerabilities, because the
| vulnerabilities that are found through the QA process and the vulnerabilities
| that are found by the security folks they engage as contractors to perform
| penetration testing are fixed in service packs and major updates. For
| Microsoft this makes sense because these fixes get the benefit of a full test
| pass which is much more robust for a service pack or major release than it is
| for a security update.
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http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2007/11/30/critical-vulnerability-in-microsoft-metrics/
Skeletons in Microsoft’s Patch Day closet
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| This is the first time I’ve seen Microsoft prominently admit to silently
| fixing vulnerabilities in its bulletins — a controversial practice that
| effectively reduces the number of publicly documented bug fixes (for those
| keeping count) and affects patch management/deployment decisions.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=316
Beware of undisclosed Microsoft patches
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| Forget for a moment whether Microsoft is throwing off patch counts
| that Microsoft brass use to compare its security record with those
| of its competitors. What do you think of Redmond’s silent patching
| practice?
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=527
Microsoft is Counting Bugs Again
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| Sorry, but Microsoft's self-evaluating security counting isn't really a
| good accounting.
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| [...]
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| The point: Don't count on security flaw counting. The real flaw is
| the counting.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/microsoft_is_counting_bugs_again.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
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