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Re: Best Way to Avoid Virus Infection? Update Your Software
From: Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 05:27:45 -0700
Can anyone find the circular definition in this story? It's amusingly subtle. On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com> wrote:
“.... Bradley Antis, vice president of technical strategy at Orange, Calif.-based M86 Security, [siad] the 15 software vulnerabilities that were most often exploited in the second half of 2010 could have been stopped dead in their tracks — all already had been patched by their vendors.... The vulnerabilities continued to spread only because countless PC users didn’t bother to update their software, leaving enough unpatched machines on the Internet to allow the exploits to thrive." http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/best-way-avoid-virus-infection-update-software-0685/ Apparently, Epsilon did not get the memo. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Best Way to Avoid Virus Infection? Update Your Software Jeffrey Walton (Apr 15)
- Re: Best Way to Avoid Virus Infection? Update Your Software Dan Kaminsky (Apr 15)
- Re: Best Way to Avoid Virus Infection? Update Your Software Blue Boar (Apr 15)
- Re: Best Way to Avoid Virus Infection? Update Your Software Dan Kaminsky (Apr 15)
- Re: Best Way to Avoid Virus Infection? Update Your Software Blue Boar (Apr 15)
- Re: Best Way to Avoid Virus Infection? Update Your Software Blue Boar (Apr 15)
- Re: Best Way to Avoid Virus Infection? Update Your Software Dan Kaminsky (Apr 15)
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- Re: Best Way to Avoid Virus Infection? Update Your Software Alex Eckelberry (Apr 15)
- Re: Best Way to Avoid Virus Infection? Update Your Software Rich Kulawiec (Apr 15)
- Re: Best Way to Avoid Virus Infection? Update Your Software Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 15)
- Re: Best Way to Avoid Virus Infection? Update Your Software phester (Apr 15)
- Re: Best Way to Avoid Virus Infection? Update Your Software Rich Kulawiec (Apr 15)
- Re: Best Way to Avoid Virus Infection? Update Your Software Rich Kulawiec (Apr 15)