Apple, Microsoft top vulnerability ranking

Top Three with most number of reported vulnerability per year. Apple took the first place, followed by Oracle and Microsoft. Other vendors in top 10 Vmware, Cisco, Mozilla and ever Google.

 Security firm Secunia has just released its Half Year Security Report (.pdf), which I downloaded to examine further. Unlike many of the sponsored studies that get passed around these days, the 19-page, .pdf report from Secunia draws upon an independent and respected database of actual vulnerabilities, tagged using a consistent (and pretty well defined) vulnerability criticality classification.

And guess which vendors took the top three spots with the most number of reported vulnerabilities per year?

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) took the first place, followed by Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). Other vendors in the top 10 list include Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) Systems (no surprise on this I suppose), VMware, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), Mozilla and even Google (NASDAQ: GOOG).

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Liquid-cooled search results

 Google has a newly-issued patent for dual-sided liquid-cooled motherboards. Are they ramping up density instead of building new data centers?
Patent 20080158818
Here’s the basic idea:

• The mobo has the hot components on 1 side and the less hot on the other.
• The liquid cooling unit is sandwiched between 2 mobos.
• Disks are on the outside of the sandwich, as is the DRAM.
• Fans are mounted on the outside to air cool the external low thermal load components.
• The hot stuff is next to the cold stuff.

Here’s a drawing from the patent:

The round holes in this side view are for the liquid coolant.
The patent was filed in December 2006.

Media 3.0

Smart TV Is Almost Here: Do you wish your television set was connected to the Internet? Google and Intel hope you do. They’ve got a new web TV platform in the works and Sony will be the first consumer electronics company to offer the Smart TV service. Paul Otellini, Intel chief executive said, “The revolution we’re about to go through is the biggest single change in television since it went colour,” OK then.

Set A WiFi Password Now: Google admitted that its Street View Vans unknowingly gathered data, like emails, from unsecured WiFi networks, mostly from people’s homes. The moral of this story, stop right now and go set a password on your WiFi router!

NYT Will Charge For Online Content: After many rumors, the New York Times announced that the NY Times.com will start charging users to read articles beginning in January. The Times has yet to reveal how much it will cost to access certain content or whether it will be a pay-per use or subscription model.