There are risks when software vendors keep the lid on potential security flaws until a patch is ready, says Roger Howorth, but who foots the bill if the hackers get there first?
Last week, news of another serious security flaw in Microsoft's IIS Web server in Windows 2000 went public. The flaw affects Microsoft's Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) comp...
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