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GCHQ Found - and Disclosed - a Windows 10 Vulnerability

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Now this is good news. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)—part of GCHQ—found a serious vulnerability in Windows Defender (their anti-virus component). Instead of keeping it secret and all of us vulnerable, it alerted Microsoft.

I’d like believe the US does this, too.

Tags: disclosure, GCHQ, vulnerabilities, Windows

Posted on December 19, 2017 at 6:06 AM • 94 Comments

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