“In its latest report, The Top Cyber Security Risks, based on
data from over 9-million systems protected by TippingPoint
intrusion prevention system, its your unpatched PC software that’s
most likely to give your computer a bad case of malware. The
biggest targets aren’t, as you might think, Web browsers or e-mail
clients that work directly with the Internet. No, it’s the
applications like Adobe Flash and PDF Reader, Apple QuickTime, and
Microsoft Office, that your Web browser or e-mail client call on to
read or play media from the Web that’s currently the real
problem.”
Applications are your biggest Security Risks
By
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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