14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft rolled out a total of eight different security bulletins on Patch Tuesday, in an attempt to patch flaws in several key products, including Windows and Internet Explorer.
Some of these updates have been developed with help from Google engineers, as Microsoft keeps working with third-party security experts on identifying and patching flaws as fast as possible.
According to details published by the tech giant on its Security Bulletin Summary for October 2013, Ivan Fratric of the Google Security Team reported the Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability (CVE-2013-3882), thus helping make Microsoft’s in-house browser a bit more secure.
What’s more, Mateusz Jurczyk, Ivan Fratric, and Ben Hawkes of the Google Security Team let the company know about the Microsoft Excel Memory Corruption Vulnerability (CVE-2013-3889) and the Microsoft Excel Memory Corruption Vulnerability detailed in bulletins CVE-2013-3889 and CVE-2013-3890.
While seeing Microsoft working with Google engineers to fix Windows flaws isn’t quite a new thing, it’s still a sign that Redmond needs to work closer with security experts from all over the world, no matter what company they are currently working for.