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Microsoft Accidentally Charges $800 for Arcade Game
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| In all seriousness, this is certainly just
| an error on Microsoft's part - someone
| meant to type in "800 MS Points" (or $10)
| and ended up pricing the game at 80 times
| that. Let's hope it gets corrected by the
| time the game comes out, or the poor Polar
| Panic folks might find their game not
| selling as well as they'd hoped.
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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/97029-Microsoft-Accidentally-Charges-800-for-Arcade-Game
Microsoft IIS vuln leaves users open to remote attack
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| A researcher has identified a
| vulnerability in the most recent version
| of Microsoft's Internet Information
| Services that allows attackers to execute
| malicious code on machines running the
| popular webserver.
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| The bug stems from the way IIS parses file
| names with colons or semicolons in them,
| according to researcher Soroush Dalili.
| Many web applications are configured to
| reject uploads that contain executable
| files, such as active server pages, which
| often carry the extension ".asp." By
| appending ";.jpg" or other benign file
| extensions to a malicious file, attackers
| can bypass such filters and potentially
| trick a server into running the malware.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/25/microsoft_iis_semicolon_bug/
Related:
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
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
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