Did Google do the right thing?
There’s a bit of debate brewing over whether or not Google did the right thing by posting a Windows 8.1 security vulnerability to the public before Microsoft was able to release a patch. The disclosure came from Google’s Project Zero program, which hunts down vulnerabilities in software and alerts its findings to vendors “in as close to real-time as possible.” Vendors are then given a 90-day deadline to issue a …read more
