Microsoft delivers early warning with latest Patch Tuesday

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http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240203559/Microsoft-delivers-early-warning-with-latest-Patch-Tuesday

By Cliff Saran
ComputerWeekly.com
14 August 2013

Microsoft is updating its Patch Tuesday releases to give customers and 
security software firms advanced notice before hackers can exploit holes 
in Windows code.

"Microsoft will be giving select companies like Trustwave a few extra days 
of advance notification for the upcoming month of bulletins so that we 
have a little extra time to develop protections for our customers before 
the bad guys can reverse engineer the patches and come out with exploits," 
said Ziv Mador, director of security research at Trustwave.

Microsoft is also providing lists of malicious URLs, file hashes, incident 
data and relevant detection guidance as part of the revamped programme.

The latest Patch Tuesday release is likely to keep IT managers busy during 
the summer lull, with three critical updates included.

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