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Companies patch OS holes, but biggest priority should be apps

Corporations appear to be much slower in patching their applications than their operating systems, even though attackers are mainly targeting application vulnerabilities, according to a new report based on data from TippingPoint, Qualys and the SANS Institute. Read full story

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