Danish security firm Secunia envisions an industry-standard app that runs when a laptop starts up, for example, scanning for unpatched or vulnerable apps and guiding the user with simple point-and-click options to update the machine. Ethical hackers so far have earned nearly $300K in payouts from the Apple bug-bounty program for discovering 55 bugs, 11 of them critical, during a three-month hack. Google has removed a pivotal privacy feature from its Android operating system that gave users the ability to deny permissions.
Source: https://threatpost.com/secunia-pushes-standard-patch-consumer-apps-042209/72568/