COMPUTER SECURITY IS A CONSTANT BATTLE. While social engineering is a very common attack, you can never discount technical vulnerabilities that might be exploited. There is always a window open where vulnerabilities can be exploited, even if you don’t know that window is open. This means it’s important to close those windows as quickly as you can if you are aware of them.
The battle starts with the distribution. The developers behind Linux distributions work diligently to get security updates released on a timely basis. Because they release these updates as binary ...
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