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Posted by Zonk on Saturday December 31, 2005 @09:31AM 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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OSOS (Score:4, Funny)

by Konster ( 252488 ) writes: on Saturday December 31, 2005 @09:38AM (#14370053)

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

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Explorer vs Firefox (Score:5, Funny)

by dynamo52 ( 890601 ) writes: on Saturday December 31, 2005 @09:41AM (#14370060)

Firefox: 1
Explorer: 45
Explorer wins!

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This count must be wrong! (Score:4, Funny)

by corvair2k1 ( 658439 ) writes: on Saturday December 31, 2005 @09:41AM (#14370063)

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

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Re:The state of security (Score:3, Funny)

by dsanfte ( 443781 ) writes: on Saturday December 31, 2005 @11:45AM (#14370404) Journal

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

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Re:Bugs != volnerability (Score:4, Funny)

by TeknoHog ( 164938 ) writes: on Saturday December 31, 2005 @01:18PM (#14370823) Homepage Journal

Looks like your spell checker has a volnerability...

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From Bob the Bot (Score:3, Funny)

by Tablizer ( 95088 ) writes: on Saturday December 31, 2005 @02:28PM (#14371088) Journal

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

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