Microsoft Hack Victims Need to Be on Alert for Sleeper Cells
As part of the deal, flaws discovered in these competitions must be kept under wraps to give affected companies time to assess the threat, work on a fix, test it and then release it. In this case, Microsoft released its patch by July 8 — a reasonable timeframe, cybersecurity experts say, given there had been no indication the hack had been used 'in the wild' until July 7.
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