Wednesday, September 06, 2006
If it talks to the network, and you can't remember when you last updated it,
then update it.
Programs that talk to anything as wild as the Internet have security bugs unless they're very simple programs.
This came to mind while reading about security bugs in the impressively solid Opera browser. The interesting thing is that the bugs are gone in version 9. There were also a couple of serious Firefox security bugs, also fixed in the current edition.
Think about updates with any program that touches the public Internet. That means instant messengers, file sharing programs, VOIP programs, just plain anything.
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Programs that talk to anything as wild as the Internet have security bugs unless they're very simple programs.
This came to mind while reading about security bugs in the impressively solid Opera browser. The interesting thing is that the bugs are gone in version 9. There were also a couple of serious Firefox security bugs, also fixed in the current edition.
Think about updates with any program that touches the public Internet. That means instant messengers, file sharing programs, VOIP programs, just plain anything.
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