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October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (if you are in the United States; otherwise it is Another Country's Cyber Security Awareness Month).
In celebration here is a short list of recent cyber-security failures:
What do all these items have in common? Firstly impact: many people have an iPhone or use Internet Explorer as web browser. They may not know what Java is but it is likely to be enabled in whatever browser they use—many internet banking sites rely on it for instance. Secondly the listed vulnerabilities all made headlines in September 2012.
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