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"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 6.21.2005 ::
:: In tech news ::
Security Software Leakier Than Windows
Vulnerabilities up 50 percent in one year, Yankee Group study says.
By Matthew Broersma, Techworld.com
LONDON -- Security software is becoming as riddled with holes as some of the products it is supposed to protect, according to new figures from the Yankee Group. The number of vulnerabilities found in security applications has risen sharply for the third year in a row and now outnumbers those identified in all Microsoft products, according to the research firm.
In 2004, researchers uncovered 60 vulnerabilities in security software, up from 31 in 2003, according to the study. In May of this year, researchers had already turned up 23 security bugs, compared with 22 bugs in Microsoft applications. The figures through May 2005 are up 50 percent over the same period last year, Yankee Group said. The figures were reported by Business Week. You can read the report here.
Yankee Group's findings confirm a trend that has become increasingly visible in recent months, as vulnerability researchers and malicious attackers put more effort into finding cracks in the programs intended to protect systems. As Microsoft has discovered in the past few years, the more companies rely on your products, the likelier you are to be attacked.
Read more here.
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