After criticism from Microsoft, Google reveals more Windows security problems

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Google's done it again.

Early this week, Microsoft was publicly displeased with Google for revealing a Windows security hole that would allow hackers to gain control of computer systems. Now Google's Project Zero disclosed two more Microsoft bugs. That makes at least four disclosures against Microsoft in the last few weeks.

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Project Zero is Google's initiative that pinpoints security problems and then notifies companies that they exist, giving them 90 days to mend or disclose the problem. If they do nothing, Google reveals them online. The more sinister of the two latest disclosures, revealed on Thursday, allows attackers to impersonate a user and decrypt or encrypt data on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. Read more...

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