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

[Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>]

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> 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>> 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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