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Conficker worm has become a PR problem
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| In other words, bad man make worm, good company willing to spend tons of
| money to catch bad man. Naughty man must go to jail. Plays wonderfully well
| with the public, especially in the US of A. If you leave your front door wide
| open, the man who steals from you is the one to be blamed. You are certainly
| not responsible.
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| Add to this a conga line of self-serving anti-virus vendors, who love to use
| the worm to drum up fear (and, incidentally, sales) by externalising the
| fault.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/23262/1231/
Does Microsoft's Patch Tuesday Need Fixing?
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| In December, for example, Microsoft was forced to release an emergency,
| out-of-cycle patch for Internet Explorer (IE) to close a security hole that
| allowed attackers to infect more than 2 million machines. The malware allowed
| the bad guys to steal such personal data as passwords when the user visited
| one of at least 10,000 compromised websites.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/159563/patch_tuesday_outdated.html?tk=rss_news
Microsoft's CAPTCHA revolutions busted by spammers - again and again
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| Spammers have once again ramped up the siege on Microsoft's Live Hotmail
| services, by busting Microsoft's latest, redesigned CAPTCHA system.
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http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/Blogs/3306.aspx
Many Brits Too Scared to Shop Online
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| Over 40 percent of Brits refuse to shop online because they are concerned
| about security, says CyberSource.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/159568/scared_to_shop_online.html?tk=rss_news
Recent:
Virus strikes 15 million PCs
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| A virulent computer virus has infected as many as 15 million computers around
| the world so far, according to various estimates.
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| The virus -- a self-replicating computer worm known as Downadup, Conficker or
| Kido -- spreads across computer networks using Microsoft Windows software
| which have not been patched or updated properly. Microsoft issued a patch
| that fixes the vulnerability the virus exploits last October.
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http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/01/26/Virus_strikes_15_million_PCs/UPI-19421232924206/
Windows worm: Security experts waiting for activation of 'botnet'
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| Computer experts are preparing to respond to further virus outbreaks and
| security threats posed by the Windows worm, known as Conficker, Kido and
| Downadup, which has infected more than 15 million PCs worldwide.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/microsoft/4345295/Windows-worm-Security-experts-waiting-for-activation-of-botnet.html
Microsoft May Accelerate Buybacks
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| Given the recent weakness in Microsoft's stock, we have
| assumed the company will likely accelerate its pace of
| buyback from the September quarter of $6.6 billion to
| roughly $8 billion for the next several quarters, resulting
| in a net reduction in fully diluted shares outstanding of
| 300 million per quarter.
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http://online.barrons.com/article/SB123067859048643923.html?mod=googlenews_barrons
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