Last month, after a series of breaches at Newark Airport, a Homeland Security inspector general report found the agency is failing to adequately report, track and fix security breaches at airports.
Music streaming site Spotify has rushed to fix a security hole that allowed users free song downloads.
The public is not sure that President Bill Clinton and Congress will be able to fix Social Security.
There are competing plans to fix Social Security, Medicare as well as the national debt and deficit.
He also vowed to "fix Social Security, " refusing to rule out raising the retirement age or allowing some Social Security funds to be invested in the stock market.
Clinton argued the first step toward a solution is a return to balanced budgets and surpluses so the country has the resources to fix Social Security the right way.
How can they get the top 1 percent of Americans a tax cut large enough to essentially fix Social Security and then turn around and say, "Oh, we have no choice but to cut Social Security benefits"?
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After months of inaction and even a warning from the Department of Homeland Security, Oracle has finally released a fix for yet another security vulnerability in its ubiquitous and notoriously buggy Java software.
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This is the security fix which HTC has been working on for the past month.
Personally, I get very tired of hearing somebody has a fix for Social security and now I can add in disability.
Give Microsoft credit: Its first fix for a security flaw in Internet Explorer that was actively exploited by hackers may have been complex and unworkable.
There is an Android security fix available from Google, but most users take their time getting around to downloading updates, says Gawker, leaving their phones insecure in the meantime.
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But despite that security fix, other problems have already sprung up: New Jerseyites in Morris and Essex counties have reported that their emails were bouncing when they requested ballots or returned them, as first reported by Buzzfeed Monday evening.
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When Oracle released a patch, Security Explorations quickly found another flaw in the fix that would allow the new security measures to be bypassed.
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"At the end of the day, most Egyptians want to see progress, whether it's a parliament that functions and passes their laws and promotes the new policies that fix the economy or bring security, or whether it's a president that can bring these things, " Elgindy said.
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Yet there seems to be little political will to fix the nagging problem of Social Security.
Security specialists claim the fix has not done enough to make PCs secure.
Facebook says it uses data from unclicked "Like" buttons only for security purposes and to fix bugs in its software.
Social Security we could probably fix the same way Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan sat down together and they could figure something out.
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"When they can't fix the problems with the social security and the employment system, we need to have a safety net to capture the poor, " said Tadashi Yamamoto, professor of social security at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.
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The Social Security Administration has tried to fix some of these problems.
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As part of its monthly security roundup, Microsoft will fix 28 bugs tomorrow (June 12) in several of its programs, including Windows, Internet Explorer and Office.
We need to learn from this episode and act quickly to fix the flaws in our system, because our security is at stake and lives are at stake.
Anyone worried about the security of their Apple device can download the fix here.
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When Internet providers fix the vulnerability, OpenDNS will lose some of its security appeal and return to pitching itself as a quick and cheap Web filter.
The software giant pledged to fix the update but its efforts became more urgent when security firm EEye Digital Security discovered that the crash circumstances could be exploited to run malicious code on that machine.
As to the second part of the fix, getting a refund for extra FICA (Social Security and Medicare taxes) paid in, the Internal Revenue Service says employers have an obligation to repay employees their share of these taxes.
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"I actually think it can translate into how could he fix the budget, or how could he deal with Social Security, " Dowd said.
Many of these exploits are posted by users who are generally concerned with security and demonstrate the exploit to help the company fix it.
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