It was late February, and Microsoft Corp. engineers had been working for weeks on a handful of alarming weaknesses in the company’s popular Exchange email service. They were rushing to send out a fix, targeting the second Tuesday of March part of a monthly ritual known in cybersecurity circles as “patch Tuesday.”
Microsoft is reportedly looking closely at its Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) to figure out if an anti-malware partner in China leaked proof-of-concept code ahead of the availability of Exchange Server patches.
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