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Date: Tue Jan 06 2009 - 00:32:01 CST

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By Gregg Keizer
January 5, 2009
Computerworld

Microsoft Corp. developers overlooked a critical bug in the Internet
Explorer browser because of a lack of adequate testing tools and
training, a company official acknowledged last month.

The flaw, which Microsoft patched last week with an emergency update,
had gone undetected for at least nine years.

Michael Howard, a principal security program manager who has been a
proponent of the company's secure code-development process, said that
Microsoft programmers had not been taught to look for the type of
vulnerability that hit the data-binding function of IE.

[...]

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