NoNamer wrote:
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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Oracle plugs 65 security holes
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Many of the vulnerabilities are significant; 27 of the 65 bugs could
>> | be exploited remotely by an anonymous attacker, Darius Wiles, senior
>> | manager for security alerts at Oracle, said in an interview. Oracle has
>> | no suggested workarounds for any of the issues. Instead it is urging
>> | customers to patch their systems.
>> `----
>>
>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6095620.html
>
> I'm surprised they only reported 65... surely there are a lot more
> waiting to be found. Sure pales in comparison to the hundreds if not
> thousands of Linux vunerabilities (not bugs - but security
> vunerabilities - bugs number far higher in Linux).
>
> Guess it just goes to prove that *every* major piece of software has
> lots of vunerabilities and bugs.
>
> Common sense says to keep up to date on your patches and to harden your
> system if its exposed on the Internet. I've got a game server on the
> Internet running Windows Server 2003 that has had 15000 unique players
> in the last 3 months - absolutely no crashes, no exploites, no viruses,
> NADA.
>
> Lots of happy player though :)
Yup. And the sky is green on your planet
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Who the fuck is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?
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