Many Open source entities had an eventful, breakthrough year in 2008. Not all the events were positive, in fact most of them weren’t. Once hacker’s, malware producer’s target was windows but in 2008 we have seen their shift of focus towards open source projects. Without any arguments, the biggest protection against security holes is always keeping up-to-date your software/application. But here is the hiccup; most open source lacks frequent update unlike property software/applications. So no matter how wonderful and creative open source projects are you can’t blame the corporate user’s going after property software/application to keep their pants on.
Of course there are exceptions like-Firefox, MySQL (supported by Sun Microsystems), PHP, WordPress (Supported by automatic), Open Office, Fedora, Ubuntu, Android (Supported by Google) etc. More or less these and few other open source projects get frequent security updates than others. Every …
Courtesy of CNet & ZDNet
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