AI Helps Microsoft Smash Patch Tuesday Record With 570 Security Fixes
Microsoft's drive to improve Windows security with AI-driven vulnerability discovery has led to another record-breaking Patch Tuesday. This time around, there's a whopping 570 security fixes for Windows 11, which is more than double the previous record set by June's 206 fixes.
If you've been following our security beat here at Hot Hardware, this news may not surprise you. After all, AI-driven cyber attacks have evolved rapidly, and AI has also helped accelerate security fixes for Google Chrome and other software, not just Windows. Even Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds has accepted AI for its utility as a tool to improve Linux, though not before tightening submission rules to prevent an unmanageable flood of AI reports.
The 570 flaws are grouped into a few different categories. The largest by far was 254 Elevation of Privilege vulnerabilities, followed by 145 Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities. There were also 102 Information...
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