Microsoft releases software flaw patches
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| Microsoft Corp. put out three software patches Tuesday
| that fix problems carrying a "critical" rating, the company's highest
| threat level... Redmond-based Microsoft is still working on a patch
| for a flaw disclosed last week in multiple versions of its widely
| used Word word processor.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061212/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_security
Yesterday in the news:
UCLA Probes Computer Security Breach
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| The University of California, Los Angeles alerted about 800,000
| current and former students, faculty and staff on Tuesday that
| their names and certain personal information were exposed after
| a hacker broke into a campus computer system.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/12/AR2006121200173.html
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.identityalert.ucla.edu
Windows Server 2003 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 12-Dec-2006 164.67.134.79
University of California, Los Angeles
Latest versions, probably fully patched, but it's not enough when 0-day
vulnerabilities (yes, already exploited 'in the wild') are not patched for
over a month and the software is poorly designed/constructed.
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