"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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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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