Microsoft has urged customers to apply its latest security patches, after several companies published "proof of concept" attacks that exploit the flaws that the updates fix.
In a notice posted to its Web site last week, the software giant highlighted proof-of-concept documentation, or sample software code to illustrate how a flaw might be used to attack a system, from two security software makers: Finjan Software and Core Security Technologies.
While Microsoft said it backs the disclosure of vulnerabilities and proof-of-concept code, a common practice in the IT security industry, it criticised the companies for publishing their test code mere hours after security patches had been released for the reported flaws.
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