From a Bill Gates memo to an industry practice: The story of Security Development Cycle

[Windows Central]

Most people would agree that Microsoft has come a long way from the dark days of frequent malware attacks and security flaws making headlines. Microsoft has now shared the untold, and thrilling, story of the Security Development Cycle at SDLstory.com with anecdotes of the early days, and never-before-seen video footage and photos of the key players.
While in the earliest days, hacking was just an underground hobby, the media attention that security attacks received made it fascinating for cybercriminals as an opportunity for fame. The romanticism of breaking the web just because you could do it became a high. But as time went on, the attacks became more and more malicious, exploiting software for financial gain.

Full story from the WPCentral blog...

 

[DaT Franchise]

Just another reason development is painfully slow.

 

[BIGPADDY]

Now cybercrime is a large evil organisation.

MS needs to keep up to date with security patches.

 

[DaT Franchise]

I think its more of patching jailbreaks and ways around getting leaks as well as other hacks just like apple does.

 

[BIGPADDY]

I think its more of patching jailbreaks and ways around getting leaks as well as other hacks just like apple does.

Well that makes more sense

 

[DaT Franchise]

I see it this way, I've had smart phones starting back with the titan, android phones from the start of android and many friends with them as well and have not once been "hacked" or got some kind of mail where crap. Gotta love when they hide a patch in an app update, apple is famous for that.