Monday, May 02, 2005

Study: Hackers aren't just picking on Microsoft

Microsoft typically receives all the bad press for security holes in software but the truth is all software has security vulnerabilities inherent in them. Since hackers like to make the most impact they go after the big players like Microsoft. The truth is just about all software vendors write security updates for their software... you just might not know about it though.

The moral of this story, always keep all software on your system fully patched to avoid big security related problems.

Here's an article with a bit more info on that topic:
Hackers aren't just picking on Microsoft

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