31-10-2016 19:10 via feedproxy.google.com

Google discloses actively exploited Windows vulnerability just 10 days after reporting it to Microsoft

Google today shared details about a security flaw in Windows, just 10 days after disclosing it to Microsoft on October 21. To make matters worse, Google says it is aware that this critical Windows vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild. That means attackers have already written code for this specific security hole and are using it to break into Windows systems.
A 0-day vulnerability is a publicly disclosed security flaw that wasn’t known before. In other words, the company t
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