Microsoft warns of 5 "critical" security holes
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| Microsoft Corp. issued five security patches on Tuesday to fix
| "critical" vulnerabilities in its Windows and Office software that
| could allow an attacker to take over a users's computer.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20061010:MTFH44407_2006-10-10_19-46-10_N10369017&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/omkuv
This translates into more SPAM and denial of service attacks in the present
and future. Also see:
Microsoft rolls out fixes for more than two dozen flaws
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| ...several of which are already being
| actively exploited in the wild.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=windows&articleId=9004044&taxonomyId=125
The recent BBC report seems to align with this observation.
Trapping hackers in the honeypot
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| Cleaning up the PC proved impossible. It was lucky we could just revert to
| an earlier configuration. If the honeypot had been a home PC almost
| everything stored on it, pictures, e-mails, might have been lost.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6035455.stm
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