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Latest Microsoft Patch Wreaks Havoc on Sharepoint
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| snydeq writes "Microsoft's latest Black
| Tuesday SharePoint patch is causing Windows
| SharePoint Servers to lock up, according to
| a report from InfoWorld. There does not
| appear to be a single solution to the
| problem, which Microsoft has yet to
| officially acknowledge. Compounding the
| problem is a bug that prevents patch KB
| 983444 from being uninstalled. 'Patching
| gurus recommend that anyone who's
| encountered this problem call Microsoft
| support and file a problem report.
| Immediately. Until the level of clamor
| reaches a critical point, Microsoft may not
| have sufficient impetus to fix the patch.'"
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http://slashdot.org/submission/1262660/Latest-Microsoft-Patch-Wreaks-Havoc-on-Sharepoint?art_pos=38
June 'Black Tuesday' patch causes SharePoint woes
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| Admins report that a new Microsoft patch is
| causing SharePoint servers to fall over --
| and getting them back up isn't easy
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http://infoworld.com/t/application-security/june-black-tuesday-patch-causes-sharepoint-woes-510
Shameless and Disturbing
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| As Clarke reports, prior to the 1990s, the
| Pentagon made extensive use of specialized
| software designed by in-house programmers
| and a few defense contractors. But under
| pressure from libertarian ideologues and
| business lobbyists, the Pentagon began to
| use commercial software instead -- in
| particular, Microsoft software. However, it
| turned out that Microsoft had built a low
| cost brand based on a principle of "one
| format for all" -- rather than software that
| was tailored to special security needs.
| Problems soon arose, including, as Clarke
| recounts, a 1997 incident when the USS
| Yorktown, a Ticonderoga-class cruiser whose
| ship operations were administered on
| computers running Windows NT, was rendered
| inoperable after Windows crashed. "When the
| Windows system crashed, as Windows often
| does," Clarke writes, "the cruiser became a
| floating i-brick, dead in the water." After
| this and a "legion of other failures of
| Windows-based systems," the Pentagon
| considered a shift to free, open-source
| operating systems like Linux. The code of
| open-source software can be altered by the
| user, and so the government would be free to
| change the software without interference
| from companies jealously guarding their
| design. It is also free.
|
| Such a switch, though, would have been
| disastrous for Microsoft's lucrative
| dealings with the government. The company
| was already fiercely opposed to regulation
| of its products' security; it did not want
| the added delay and cost of improving its
| software in order to decrease its
| vulnerability. If the government switched to
| open-source software, it could make the
| improvements itself -- but doing so would
| deal a major blow to Microsoft's profits. So
| Microsoft moved to prevent the government
| from exploring any alternatives. It "went on
| the warpath," writes Clarke, threatening to
| "stop cooperating" with the government if it
| adopted an open-source platform. It made
| major campaign contributions and hired a
| small army of lobbyists. Clarke outlines
| their purpose as: "don't regulate security
| in the software industry, don't let the
| Pentagon stop using our software no matter
| how many security flaws it has, and don't
| say anything about software production
| overseas or deals with China." (China,
| security experts feared, could plant logic
| bombs and malware into the software.)
|
| Clarke reports that Microsoft insiders
| admitted that the company "really did not
| take security seriously," because "there was
| no real alternative to its software, and
| they were swimming in money from their
| profits."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amitai-etzioni/shameless_b_617487.html
Recent:
One-third of Security Essentials users infected: Microsoft
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| Almost a third of the customers who have
| installed Microsoft's free Security
| Essentials software have been found to be
| suffering from major malware infections.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/28745/53/
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