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[News] [Rival] Internet Explorer a Menace Again, Microsoft Found Full of Holes

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Internet Explorer a Menace Again, Microsoft Found Full of Holes
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:58:58 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Microsoft has another IE flaw 

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| CURSED BY ITS HAIRBALL CODE, Microsoft has 
| released another security warning relating to 
| a bug in Internet Explorer.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1590449/microsoft-ie-flaw

Microsoft to patch 26 holes in Windows, Office

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| Microsoft will patch 26 holes next week, 
| including critical ones in Windows, one 
| affecting the kernel of 32-bit versions, and 
| several holes in Office, the company said 
| Thursday in a preview of its Patch Tuesday.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10447678-245.html


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


New Zealand teenager convicted over international cyber crime ring

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| Owen Thor Walker, 18, known by his online name "AKILL," was involved in a 
| network accused of infiltrating 1.3 million computers and skimming millions 
| of dollars from victims' bank accounts.  
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http://news.smh.com.au/new-zealand-teenager-convicted-over-international-cyber-crime-ring/20080301-1vzs.html


No April Fools'--Storm worm is back

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| The compromised computer will then install the downloaded file as C:
| \WINDOWS\aromis.exe. Nazario reports that the botnet file opens the firewall 
| using the netsh firewall set command, makes a lot of outbound connections, 
| then listens on a random UDP port.   
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http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9906880-57.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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