Dark Reading - Hacked Off: Patching Goes Up In Flames

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The Flame malware throws the integrity of patching into question, which creates quite a quandary for those trained to patch early and often. This represents a significant inflection point for security -- or does it?

Jun 24, 2012
By Mike Rothman

Everyone is talking about how Flame changed the game. The alleged precursor to Stuxnet broke Windows Update by undermining its cryptography in a truly novel way to pretend its installation was a legitimate update from Microsoft. You can check out the specifics of the attack in this great presentation by Alex Sotirov of Trail of Bits.

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