Google reveals a vulnerability in Windows 8.1 did not issue its updated after




Usually when a company discovers a serious gap in the products of another company they are informing them to issue a security update her works to be filled and then talk about the gap details publicly. But this time, Google published a loophole in the system for Windows 8.1 allows the user to get the highest administrative authority thus access to sensitive places in the system and without that Microsoft issued a security grafts after her !.

Google says it has given Microsoft sufficient time ago that I got to know the gap within the Project Zero assigned to search for weaknesses in software and systems companies and inform them of the closure of the initiative before he could pirates discovered and exploited.

Google and Microsoft informed about the gap since last September 30, ie at least three months before, however, Microsoft has not yet issued any security update them. Google believes that this period was enough for Microsoft to reach a security update and most of the gaps that have been discovered in accordance with the initiative and inform the companies it has been issuing its own security updates during the maximum period of waiting for a 90-day.

But Microsoft has said it is working on the launch of the security update to close this gap. It also indicates that the pirates so that they can benefit from them first, get them on the powers of entry to a particular device, and then take advantage of them to get the highest administrative authority. User recommends continuous updating of anti-virus software and install all security updates that you send with the activation of a firewall.


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