Google's Famous Security Guru Found An Embarrassing Hole In Microsoft's Products

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http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-security-versus-google-guru-2014-6

By Julie Bort
Business Insider
June 18, 2014

On Tuesday, Microsoft warned that it was issuing an emergency patch to fix 
a dangerous flaw in its software.

This is notable for a few reasons. Microsoft rarely releases these kinds 
of urgent patches, only nine of them so far in 2014. It normally saves all 
patches for one mega patch day once a month.

The software in question affects almost all of Microsoft's family of 
security software. That means that the software Microsoft designed to 
protect computers from hackers can be hacked. In this case, it can be 
turned off, and from there, the hacker could do more harm.

The person who found the flaw was none other than Microsoft's security 
nemesis, Tavis Ormandy.

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