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Oracle Fixes Java Vulnerability Used By Russian Cyberspies (itworld.com)

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @04:31PM from the protect-ya-neck dept.

itwbennett writes: Oracle said that it has fixed 154 security flaws in Java and a wide range of its other products, including one that Russian cyberespionage group Pawn Storm used to launch stealthy attacks earlier this year. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2015-4902, was being used by the Pawn Storm attackers to enable the execution of a malicious Java application without user interaction.

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Re:What if we make them legally responsible for bu by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-21 17:13 · Score: 5, Insightful

Every software company would go out of business. How many non-embedded, non-life critical developers here check every mathematical operation for under or over flows? How many computer systems are hardened against a random bit flip? And how would the world react to the sudden and massive increase in unemployment as all employees of those companies lose their jobs.
It'll never happen. Consumers don't care about buggy software and non-buggy software is too difficult to code. Perfect code can fail on bad hardware too.