Sentences with phrase «coordinated vulnerability disclosure»

To help identify and mitigate the next generation of Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution flaws in CPUs, Microsoft and Intel are offering researchers up to $ 250,000 if they share their discoveries as part of a coordinated vulnerability disclosure program.

«We believe in coordinated vulnerability disclosure, and today's disclosure by Google puts customers at potential risk,» a Microsoft spokesperson told VentureBeat.

He warned that speculative execution side - channel vulnerabilities «require an industry response» and said that Microsoft would share the research disclosed to it in the program under the coordinated vulnerability disclosure principles.

Back in 2016, after Google went public with a flaw that could allow an attacker to install a backdoor on Windows users» computers, Microsoft's Terry Myerson was so aggravated with Google that he wrote, «We believe responsible technology industry participation puts the customer first, and requires coordinated vulnerability disclosure.

«While we acknowledge that critical vulnerabilities such as these create challenging trade - offs between disclosure and secrecy, as premature disclosure may give malicious actors time to exploit the vulnerabilities before mitigations are developed and deployed, we believe that this situation has shown the need for additional scrutiny regarding multi-party coordinated vulnerability disclosures,» the committee leaders wrote.