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Microsoft flaw reveals inefficient security model
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| When Microsoft released an emergency patch last month for a critical
| vulnerability in the server service in Windows, administrators and security
| teams in enterprises around the world scrambled to test the fix, schedule
| downtime and get the patch distributed as quickly as possible. If ever there
| was an occasion to use all due haste in deploying a patch, this was it. Not
| only was the vulnerability present in every supported version of Windows, but
| Microsoft officials had warned that it was a prime candidate for a worm.
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http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/column/0,294698,sid14_gci1340884,00.html
Security Manager's Journal: When is a patch not really a patch?
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| If you don't reboot a Windows server after a patch is applied, the patch
| doesn't take effect, but SMS doesn't notice that failure to reboot. This
| insistence on rebooting is one of the things I dislike about Windows. In the
| Unix world, all that's usually required is that a particular process be
| restarted.
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http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=330026&taxonomyId=17&intsrc=kc_feat
Days ago:
Microsoft Plans Eight Security Bulletins for Patch Tuesday
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Microsoft-Plans-Eight-Security-Bulletins-for-Patch-Tuesday/?kc=rss
Secunia publishes shocking vulnerability statistics
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| Since the release of Personal Software Inspector 1.0 last week, over those
| seven days security specialists Secunia have gathered statistics showing that
| out of 20,000 PCs polled only 1.91 per cent of machines in personal use are
| fully patched with the latest security updates. According to statistics
| Secunia have gathered in the past, if anything, the numbers for insecure PCs
| are worse now, than they were a year ago.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/119908
Last week:
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
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