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Mozilla Foundation developing a model for a security metric
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| The Mozilla Foundation plans to develop a better model for gauging the
| security of its Firefox web browser. In contrast to Microsoft, the number of
| officially provided security updates is not to be the sole parameter used.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/110571/from/rss09
Microsoft is regularly being caught patching things secretly and/or combining
things to reduce numbers. Microsoft is a marketing company. It lies.
Recent:
Web security report says known vulnerabilities fall because criminals pay to
hide them
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| Some researchers fear software vendors are now buying information on the
| vulnerabilities so they can fix them without anyone noticing.
|
| In other words, Rouland fears, "it is profitable not to (publicly) report a
| vulnerability."
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http://news.smh.com.au/web-security-report-says-known-vulnerabilities-fall-because-criminals-pay-to-hide-them/20080212-1rrs.html
Microsoft examples:
Vista SP1 will contain undocumented fixes
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| Interesting email in today mailbag: “Will SP1 contain undisclosed or
| undocumented security fixes?”
|
| For some people, counting the number of security flaws that one OS has
| compared to another is important because it offers a metric upon which to
| determine which OS is the most secure (personally, I feel that it’s a bogus
| metric, but I’ll let it slide for now). However, many claim that Microsoft
| stacks the deck in its favor by not disclosing a full list of vulnerabilities
| that have been patched by omitting to include those discovered and patched
| in-house.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1225
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/
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03096.pdf
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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