Are Software Updates Useless Against Advanced Persistent Threats?

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Authors Fabio Massacci, Giorgio Di Tizio arXiv ID 2306.07355 Category cs.SE: Software Engineering Citations 5 Venue Communications of the ACM Last Checked 4 months ago
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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.
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