In a move which probably won’t surprise anyone who hasn’t spent the last year under a rock, a security researcher has just found weaknesses in a mobile operating system.

This time, the affected platform is webOS. darkREADING reports the following:

Meanwhile, HP has fixed the “Contacts” application issue as of the WebOS 2.0 beta, but the researchers have found a mix of other bugs, including ones of the floating-point overflow, denial-of-service, and cross-site scripting variety, in the new beta version of the smartphone platform.

Even though it may be somewhat embarrassing for Palm to be in the news over that matter, let me offer consolidation: give it a few weeks, and another OS will be in the headlights…

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