Superbugs: 10 software bugs that took way too long to meet their maker
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Earlier this week, Microsoft patched a security vulnerability that, it turns out, has been present in every version of its operating systems since the release of Windows 1995, more than 19 years ago. As the IBM researchers who discovered the bug put it, it’s been “sitting in plain site” while other vulnerabilities in the same library have been fixed over the years.
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