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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Critically Insecure by Design, Mozilla Chooses Just FOSS

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Critically Insecure by Design, Mozilla Chooses Just FOSS
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:19:16 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.9
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Worm Risk Spurs Critical Microsoft Patch

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| This marks the first time since April 2007 that Microsoft has released a fix 
| outside of its normal Patch Tuesday cycle; it wa s sparked by lessons learned 
| from worm epidemics like Blaster and Slammer, which cost users billions of 
| dollars to disinfect in 2003.   
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/153768/worm_risk_spurs_critical_microsoft_patch.html

No they also did this in Xmas. All versions had a "Critical" flaw.

Mozilla Thunderbird using Drupal

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| Mozilla launched spreadthunderbird.com this week. Spread Thunderbird is the 
| volunteer-run Thunderbird advocacy site where community marketing activities 
| are organized to raise awareness and to promote the adoption of Thunderbird, 
| Mozilla's Open Source e-mail application. The Spread Thunderbird site is 
| powered by Drupal and uses the Acquia Marina theme. They are also using 
| Mollom to protect their site against spam.      
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http://buytaert.net/mozilla-thunderbird-using-drupal


Recent:

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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