"The integration of the hardware, software and services necessary for system-wide security has been slow, " said Warren East, CEO, ARM.

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When IBM filtered those unpatched security flaws by severity, however, Google came out as the least likely to patch critical security bugs in its software that would allow a hacker to completely hijack a target system, leaving 33% of those high severity flaws unpatched over the first half of the year.

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It recommends that policymakers consider "steps that would increase the exposure of software and system vendors and system operators to liability for system breaches" as an incentive to face up to security issues instead of ducking their costs.

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The suit alleges that the security-software giant infringed on a DeepNines patent, one that combines an intrusion detection and prevention system with a firewall, in a single device.

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So even after an attacker finds a security bug that allows him access to the system, he can exploit it only by reusing commands that are already in Apple's software, a process security researcher Dino Dai Zovi has compared to writing a ransom note out of magazine clippings.

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