{"id":185494,"date":"2016-11-02T10:05:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T08:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=185494"},"modified":"2016-11-02T10:06:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T08:06:40","slug":"microsoft-hits-back-at-google-over-windows-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/185494-microsoft-hits-back-at-google-over-windows-vulnerability.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft hits back at Google over Windows vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/185358-google-discloses-actively-exploited-windows-vulnerability.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Google recently disclosed<\/strong><\/a> an actively-exploited 0-day Windows vulnerability less than 10 days after notifying Microsoft\u00a0about the flaw.<\/p>\n<p>The Windows vulnerability is a local privilege escalation in the Windows kernel that can be used as a security sandbox escape.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/mmpc\/2016\/11\/01\/our-commitment-to-our-customers-security\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Microsoft has now hit back<\/strong><\/a>, saying it disagrees with Google&#8217;s characterization of the local elevation of privilege as &#8220;critical&#8221; and &#8220;particularly serious\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attack scenario they describe is fully mitigated by the deployment of the Adobe Flash update released last week,\u201d said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditionally, our analysis indicates that this specific attack was never effective against the Windows 10 Anniversary Update due to security enhancements previously implemented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Terry Myerson, executive vice president of the Windows and Devices Group, said patches for all versions of Windows are now being tested by industry participants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe plan to release them publicly on the next Update Tuesday on 8 November,\u201d said Myerson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoogle\u2019s decision to disclose these vulnerabilities before patches are broadly available and tested is disappointing, and puts customers at increased risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/185358-google-discloses-actively-exploited-windows-vulnerability.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google discloses actively-exploited Windows vulnerability<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has hit back at Google&#8217;s characterization of a Windows vulnerability, and is planning a patch next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,11399,167,123,39594],"class_list":["post-185494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-adobe-flash","tag-google","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-10-anniversary-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185548,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185494\/revisions\/185548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}