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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Google Outs Unpatched Windows 8.1 Kernel Flaw

Microsoft got a fiery start to 2015 when Google last week publicized a kernel vulnerability in Windows 8.1 Update. Google Project Zero's James Forshaw, who discovered the flaw, ranked it as a high-severity issue. Although Forshaw reported it to Microsoft last September, the company had not yet fixed the problem when Google published it. The vulnerability lets people falsely pose as administrators. Microsoft's tardiness could be due to "anything from competing internal priorities to lost emails," said Bromium security researcher Jared DeMott.



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