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Continuing the trend of improved security from Microsoft on its operating systems and products, Danish software security firm Secunia found that third-party applications were the most likely source of pc security problems. They look at the top 50 programs installed on computers globally.  Microsoft products (the operating system and Microsoft applications) represent 65% of the programs, yet have only 14% of ...

Oracle’s Java product, which is widely used on macs, pcs, and smartphones, has been shown to be extremely vulnerable.  In mid-February, Oracle released a patch for over fifty accumulated vulnerabilities, some of which had been known and actively exploited for months.  Two weeks later, Oracle was force to issue another set of emergency patches as even more critical vulnerabilities were discovered. Security experts ...