[TriLUG] Homeland Security and Java

[John Mitchell]

According to the H, the updates fix it.

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Exploits-for-Ruby-on-Rails-holes-now-in-circulation-1781158.html

john mitchell


On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Dan Weber <dan.b.weber at gmail.com> wrote:

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the version of rails Rails released
> this week focused on patching this vulnerability?
>
> On Saturday, January 12, 2013, James Jones wrote:
>
> > And how is that different from the past serious holes in Windows XP,
> > Vista, etc... Don't remember any Homeland Security press releases on
> > that subject.
> > .
> > jcj
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org
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> > >
> > >> Why is Homeland Security dispatching a news release advising computer
> > >> users to "disable JAVA"? Comments welcome.
> > >
> > > They're from the government, and they're here to help you?
> > >
> > > As mentioned at the meeting this week, there was a pretty serious
> > > security vulnerability found in Java this week.  There was also
> > > a serious hole found in Ruby on Rails.
> > >
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