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I am a retired librarian, most recently serving at Indiana Wesleyan University's Cleveland Education Center.

Wednesday, November 04, 2015

The Importance of Keeping Software Current

Preston Gralla summarizes the findings of a report on software that is commonly not updated and which contain vulnerabilites to malware or other attacks. The full report can be found here.

Maria Korolov has written a similar article focusing on how outdated instances of Adobe Flash are found on perhaps 80% of the computers in the U.S., creating system vulnerabilities which hackers can attack.

-DD

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