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Archive for January 11th, 2006

11 Jan

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, January 2006

Despite releasing it last week, MS06-001, the WMF flaw, was also released as one of three Critical, Remote Code Execution possible patches that comprised the January 2006 Microsoft security bulletin. As is typical, the patches seem to affect every supported version from Windows 2000 on up. However, earlier versions of Windows are provided with a [...]

11 Jan

‘Numbers of flaws’ is a flawed measure of security

Garrett Fitzgerald’s Blogs Apples and Oranges. “In a recent post, Craig Berntson trumpets about a recent CERT report that “proves” that Windows is more secure than Linux. What he doesn’t mention is that the “Linux/Unix” list lumps together the Linux kernel, Mac OSX, HPUX, SCO Unixware, and others. So, when comparing 1 OS against 6 [...]

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