Re: Best Way to Avoid Virus Infection? Update Your Software

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

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.
>     >
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