RE: It's Time to Patch and Upgrade

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January 5, 2018 at 7:26 am

#1974682

jay-h - Friday, January 5, 2018 6:45 AM
It's also interesting that some of the browser attacks were through new enhancements designed to make browsers perform better. The fix is to disable the new features.
Changes are a double edged sword.

Performance optimization often times means programming shortcuts around bottlenecks. Unfortunately this sometimes means bypassing security checks or introducing new vulnerabilities to exploit.

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