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Re:Shadow Brokers exploits are patched or inactive on suppor... by fulafel on Saturday April 15, 2017 @05:26AM (#14120054)
Corporations don't have to delay critical security patches, they just elect to do so based on some motives that compete with security.
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Re:Shadow Brokers exploits are patched or inactive on suppor... by archvile on Saturday April 15, 2017 @10:17AM (#14120789)
"Some motive" I think would equate to fear of breaking mission critical or legacy applications. In a high-stakes environment, I'd imagine functionality would win out initially over security, until everything has time to be tested properly.
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Re:Shadow Brokers exploits are patched or inactive on suppor... by scurvy on Saturday April 15, 2017 @10:43AM (#14120907)
I worked at MSN a while ago, and even we didn't patch everything immediately. It had to go through our team's QA first. We found a few bad installers and that reinforced the practice.
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