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5,198 Software Flaws Found in 2005

Posted by Zonk on from the better-to-find-them-than-not dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Security researchers uncovered nearly 5,200 software vulnerabilities in 2005, almost 40 percent more than the number discovered in 2004, according to Washingtonpost.com. From the article: 'According to US-CERT...researchers found 812 flaws in the Windows operating system, 2,328 problems in various versions of the Unix/Linux operating systems (Mac included). An additional 2,058 flaws affected multiple operating systems.'"

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  1. OSOS by Konster · · Score: 3, Funny

    812 flaws in the Windows operating system? When did they start counting flaws? December 28th?

  2. Explorer vs Firefox by dynamo52 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Firefox: 1
    Explorer: 45
    Explorer wins!

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  3. This count must be wrong! by corvair2k1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've released more than that by myself this year!

  4. Re:The state of security by dsanfte · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've never seen "concentrate" spelled quite like that. +2 points for originality.

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  5. Re:Bugs != volnerability by TeknoHog · · Score: 3, Funny

    Looks like your spell checker has a volnerability...

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  6. From Bob the Bot by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    The problem is obviously humans. If we kill the humans the problems wouldn't happen.

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