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• Flexera Software acquires Secunia

  Company puts management and risk mitigation back into the customers’ hands

• Android security in the enterprise - can the worst flaws be fixed?

  How do Android's growing list of vulnerabilities affect enterprises and is there much they can do about them?

• Software flaws reach all-time high with open source a growing worry

  Most applications are patched by vendors on day one. But a dangerous minority - especially third-party open source - take a lot longer

• Zero day, Web browser vulnerabilities spike in 2014

  Secunia found that overall more than 83 per cent of vulnerabilities had patches ready when the flaws became public

• Hackers now crave patches, and Microsoft's giving them just what they want

  At least one of next Tuesday's updates looks like an excellent candidate to hackers as they sniff for bugs in the now-retired Windows XP

• Prominent security mailing list Full Disclosure shuts down indefinitely

  The administrator says he had enough after a member of the hacker community tried to pressure him to remove unspecified content