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+ - Google Researcher Issues How-To on Attacking XP 2

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes "A Google engineer today published attack code that exploits a zero-day vulnerability in Windows XP, giving hackers a new way to hijack and infect systems with malware. But other security experts objected to the way the Google engineer disclosed the bug — just five days after it was reported to Microsoft — and said the move is more evidence of the ongoing, and increasingly public, war between the two giants."
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Google Researcher Issues How-To on Attacking XP

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  • Zero-day? (Score:2, Interesting)

    by druke (1576491)
    How is this a zero-day exploit if it was already reported to MS, 5 days ago? Is zero-day just getting tossed around trivially now?

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by c0lo (1497653)
      Aww... c'mon mate!
      Being disclosed to a company that took 8- years to get from one decent OS version (XP) to another (Win7) , you should infer the days' length is expressed in the terms of Genesis.

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