Microsoft to Give White Hats a Head Start on Patch Tuesdays

ronjor · Aug 6, 2008

Trusted security vendors will soon get to see Microsoft's Patch Tuesday fixes each month before the rest of the world does. The company's new Microsoft Active Protection Program is designed to let security makers head off hackers, some of which begin crafting malware the moment Patch Tuesday fixes are made public in an attempt to strike at known vulnerabilities before everyone has plugged their systems.
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JRViejo · Aug 6, 2008

Well, it's about time!

And in conjunction with that, Microsoft to predict exploitability of its own bugs.

The index, which will be added as a new table to the monthly security bulletins beginning with those scheduled for release on Oct. 14, will rate each bug using a three-step system (listed here in descending order of severity):

* Consistent exploit code likely
* Inconsistent exploit code likely
* Functioning exploit code unlikely
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