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Two new zero-day exploits dent Microsoft's Patch Tuesday
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| Microsoft's Patch Day delivered eight updates, but has been overshadowed by
| newly discovered zero day holes, which are apparently not closed by the new
| updates.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/120239
Third Zero Day exploit appears
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| Microsoft has confirmed it is investigating another zero day exploit.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/120241
Another Microsoft Bug Revealed on Huge Patch Day
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| Along with its biggest patch release in five years, Microsoft warned on
| Tuesday of another potentially dangerous vulnerability in its software.
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| The problem lies within the WordPad Text Converter for Word 97 files,
| Microsoft said in an advisory.
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| The systems affected include Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows XP Service
| Pack 2, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2003 Service
| Pack 2, Microsoft said. XP Service Pack 3 and the Vista operating systems are
| not affected.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/155253/.html?tk=rss_news
Recent:
PR spinner insists Vista kernel is secure
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| IT IS NOT OFTEN that anyone at Waggener Edstrom, Microsoft's pet public
| relations firm, writes to The INQUIRER. Read on, and we think you'll soon
| understand why that's the case.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/12/04/vista-kernel-secure-insists
Windows patching abysmal, and getting worse
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| Fewer than one in 50 Windows PCs are fully patched, according to stats from
| users of Secunia's new patching tool, which suggest surfers are becoming even
| more slipshod with applying patches over the last year.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/03/secunia_patching_survey/
Virus hits nearly 75% of systems on Afghanistan military base
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2232&tag=nl.e550
Computer Virus Hits U.S. Military Base in Afghanistan
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| The largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan was hit by a computer virus
| earlier this month that affected nearly three quarters of the computers on
| the base, U.S. News has learned.
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http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/iraq/2008/11/28/computer-virus-hits-us-military-base-in-afghanistan.html
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
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