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Re: Best Way to Avoid Virus Infection? Update Your Software
From: Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:07:11 -0700
Yes, that's what I meant. Patch not available. Trying to avoid "0-day". Ryan On 4/15/11 11:06 AM, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
Unpatched vulnerabilities are usually undetected. If they were detected, they'd probably be patched. On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com <mailto:BlueBoar () thievco com>> wrote: Using unpatched vulns as justification for pushing patching? Ryan On 4/15/11 5:27 AM, Dan Kaminsky wrote: > 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 <mailto:noloader () gmail com> > <mailto:noloader () gmail com <mailto: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. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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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Current thread:
- 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)