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Microsoft Crash Reports May Aid Hack Attacks on Businesses

Next time you get an error report from Microsoft on your office PC, you may want to think twice before sending the crash data.

A lot of valuable information about a network is transmitted unencrypted in an error report sent back to Microsoft, which leaves a company more vulnerable to an attack by hackers, according to Alexander Watson, the security research director at Websense.

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This article originally appeared on Recode.net.