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Windows patching abysmal, and getting worse
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| Fewer than one in 50 Windows PCs are fully patched, according to stats from
| users of Secunia's new patching tool, which suggest surfers are becoming even
| more slipshod with applying patches over the last year.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/03/secunia_patching_survey/
Apple Didn't Issue a New Anti-Virus Advisory
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| Will bloggers and journalists please stop writing that Apple has suddenly
| advised its users to use anti-virus software? That's simply not true.
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| There haven't been any major new malware attacks to suggest increasing Mac
| marketshare has generated more malware. Just two weeks ago, I blogged that in
| fact Apple's increasing marketshare hadn't led to more attacks—that
| Microsoft's marketshare mythology is wrong.
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http://blogs.eweek.com/applewatch/content/security/apple_didnt_issue_a_new_antivirus_advisory.html
"Our products just aren't engineered for security."
--Brian Valentine, Microsoft executive
Yesterday:
Virus hits nearly 75% of systems on Afghanistan military base
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2232&tag=nl.e550
Computer Virus Hits U.S. Military Base in Afghanistan
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| The largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan was hit by a computer virus
| earlier this month that affected nearly three quarters of the computers on
| the base, U.S. News has learned.
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http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/iraq/2008/11/28/computer-virus-hits-us-military-base-in-afghanistan.html
Recent:
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
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