Are Software Updates Useless Against Advanced Persistent Threats?

06/12/2023

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by   Fabio Massacci, et al.

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A dilemma worth Shakespeare's Hamlet is increasingly haunting companies and security researchers: “to update or not to update, this is the question“. From the perspective of recommended common practices by software vendors the answer is unambiguous: you should keep your software up-to-date. But is common sense always good sense? We argue it is not.