The new patch fixes both the original security hole named after researcher Juan Carlos Garcia Cuartango and a recently discovered variant of the problem.

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The patch also fixes a bug discovered earlier this month that allows anyone who gains physical access to a phone to bypass its lockscreen in seconds and access contacts and photos.

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Do nothing and hope Microsoft fixes the problem in their next Patch Tuesday which will be in February!

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The latter has an engineering model of the ATV on which fixes can be tested before a patch is tried on the real spacecraft in orbit.

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There was a lot to fix, so Gearbox clearly made many, but not all, fixes, in order to get this patch out as soon as they could.

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And Google has been slow to patch those vulnerabilities in Android, Oberheide says, often pushing out fixes to just a segment of users as a test before fully patching phones weeks later.

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