Microsoft: Watch out for zero days; deferred patches, not so much

Minimalist · Feb 8, 2019

Matt Miller’s presentation at Blue Hat yesterday included some startling statistics, based on data gathered by Microsoft’s Security Response Center. The numbers starkly confirm what we’ve been saying for years: The chances of getting hit with malware by delaying Windows and Office patches for up to 30 days is tiny compared to all the other ways of getting clobbered.

The presentation deck for his talk shows how the number of security holes (measured by CVEs) has grown by leaps and bounds — doubling in the past five years — but the number of actual in-the-wild exploits has gone down by half in the past five years.
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https://www.computerworld.com/artic...r-zero-days-deferred-patches-not-so-much.html

Floyd 57 · Feb 8, 2019

And when you update on time? Even better!

Minimalist · Feb 10, 2019

Microsoft: Improved security features are delaying hackers from attacking Windows users

Constant security improvements to Microsoft products are finally starting to pay off dividends, a Microsoft security engineer revealed last week.

Speaking at the BlueHat security conference in Israel, Microsoft security engineer Matt Miller said that widespread mass exploitation of security flaws against Microsoft users is now uncommon --the exception to the rule, rather than the norm.
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/micro...elaying-hackers-from-attacking-windows-users/

Minimalist · Feb 11, 2019

Microsoft: 70 percent of all security bugs are memory safety issues

Around 70 percent of all the vulnerabilities in Microsoft products addressed through a security update each year are memory safety issues; a Microsoft engineer revealed last week at a security conference.
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-security-bugs-are-memory-safety-issues/

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