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Microsoft Opens Its Security Research Cookbooks

Posted in Security (December 28, 2007 at 11:06 pm)

greg65535 writes “Today Microsoft launched a blog about the internals of their IT security research and patch development process. There are already some posts that you will not find in the official security bulletins or KB articles. One of the posts says, ‘We periodically identify workarounds or mitigations like this that we can’t use for official guidance because they’re either too nuanced or have some exception cases. When we discover something potentially useful but are uncomfortable listing it in the bulletin, we’ll do our best to describe it here in this blog.’ It looks like Microsoft is making an effort to become more ‘open’ in the area of security research and communication.”

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