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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@article{arxiv.2306.07355,
title = {Are Software Updates Useless Against Advanced Persistent Threats?},
author = {Fabio Massacci and Giorgio Di Tizio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.07355},
year = {2023}
}