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 <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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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