The final myth is the one that leads to the most pronounced false sense of security - that my make of computer or operating system is not vulnerable to security problems.
On Tuesday the French firm Vupen, whose researchers develop software hacking techniques and sell them to government agency customers, announced that it had already developed an exploit that could take over a Window 8 machine running Internet Explorer 10, in spite of the many significant security upgrades Microsoft built into the latest version of its operating system.
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The company can apply its own security standards across each platform, regardless of the operating system.
Issues to consider include ease of deployment, managing backup and data access, support, security, network complexity, device management, operating system diversity, total cost of ownership and integration of various tablet platforms at the application, mobile device management process and system level.
SELinux includes security enhancements to the operating system that can enforce the separation of information based on the confidentiality and integrity requirements.
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Many corporations won't support phones runningGoogle's Android operating system, for instance, partly because of security concerns.
Operation of this application requires the iOS operating system and its inherent security features.
In addition, it is powered by an updated version of the Leaf OS, a custom operating system designed for payment security, speed and usability.
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The company will continue to deliver free security fixes for the operating system beyond this cutoff date, however maintenance updates will require the purchase of extended support from Microsoft.
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Widely distributed Android malware has exploited known security vulnerabilities in the Android operating system for which fixes from Google existed, but which the vast majority of consumer devices had not received at the time of infection.
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To achieve this, he agreed to raise the rate of the (relatively efficient) Social Security payroll tax, thereby helping to protect that flawed system from suffering operating deficits for more than 25 years.
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