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Workshop: New Threat - Reverse engineering patches to find vulnerabilities #70

Open mpeck12 opened 7 years ago

mpeck12 commented 7 years ago

New Threat

Threat Category: Stack, but probably applies to almost all the other categories too. Suggested by industry participants at workshop

Threat: Reverse engineering of published patches to find vulnerabilities

Threat Origin: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/04/reverseengineer.html http://www.computerworld.com/article/2489256/malware-vulnerabilities/hackers-now-crave-patches--and-microsoft-s-giving-them-just-what-they-want.html

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Possible Countermeasures: Same Countermeasures as STA-0 - e.g. to ensure that patches are promptly installed

References: See Threat Origin above.