Google engineers are behind more than half reporting bugs in the last patchronde Microsoft

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Of the total of 57 patches Microsoft’s patch tuesday has rolled out, are 32 updates based on reporting bugs of Google employees. Especially the “Windows hacker” Mateusz Jurczyk has a large number of security vulnerabilities in the Windows manufacturer submitted.

Microsoft released Tuesday to patch tuesday, a large number of updates for the various Windows variants, but with 57 updates is not yet a record achieved; that is on a patchronde of 64 pieces, so writes The Verge. A large part of the released patches, mostly security holes to be sealed, are based on reports by third parties.

One of them is Mateusz Jurczyk, security engineer at Google and say ‘Windows hacker’. Jurczyk, Microsoft credits for up to 32 patches, which this week rolled out. During five issues got Jurczyk help from colleagues, Gynvael Coldwind,. A number of patches from Microsoft labelled as “important”, a step under ‘criticism’.

That Google employees are reporting bugs to submit to Microsoft is not new, but a number of 32 is not unprecedented. Additionally, Google has in the past, Microsoft will be even less long as the time given to a vulnerability gap: in June 2010 had Microsoft head-over-heels of a zero-day bug patched after a Google engineer, a flaw in Windows XP published five days after the problem at the software giant had laid down.