Alexander Antonov wrote:
I believe the issue of automatic updates was already discussed on other security-related lists.
Yes, I agree, but that's not what I was commenting on specifically.
Certainly, we've seen automatic patches for a few years now. (And for
many systems, e.g., desktop users, I
Ken,
I believe the issue of automatic updates was already discussed on other
security-related lists. There are two main problems:
- everybody who has subscribed is at a complete mercy of the software manufacturer, if
a new bug is introduced in a new release, then everybody becomes vulnerable be
Even though this is free base it also has a lot of topics and flaws in the
Windows systems. This is now on line for all to take a ganer at:
http://www.osvdb.org/
Regards,
George
Greenarrow1
InNetInvestigations-Forensics
You might find this interesting for secured coding of softwears: Apr15 at
12 noon EDT, registration is required.
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid14_gci958905,00.html?track=NL-102&ad=480185
Regards,
George
Greenarrow1
InNetInvestigations-Forensics
Hi gang,
The April 2004 issue of Information Security Magazine contains an article I wrote on
the future of software. It is adapted (pretty heavily) from Exploiting Software and
identifies seven trends that will help you understand how software is evolving and how
this evolution will impact se
