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November 5, 2004
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In This Edition
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1. News: Serious IE Hole Opens PCs Up to Attacks
2. News: Internet Explorer Takes Another Market-Share Hit
3. News: New Phishing Attack Uses Old IE Exploit
4. News: Hackers Hold Cisco Source Code Hostage
5. Opinion: Firefox Is a Worthy Adversary
6. News: MS Office 12's Secrets Begin to Trickle Out
7. News: Microsoft Readies New Office Update for Small Biz
Owners
8. Opinion: Mac and Linux Not Immune to Viruses
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Enterprise Update
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1. News: Serious IE Hole Opens PCs Up to Attacks
US-CERT on Wednesday warned of a fresh hole in Internet
Explorer that could allow attackers to take control of a PC
via an HTML e-mail message or a malicious Web page. Find out
why this could snowball into something big.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1343-1-5-264762-148626-1
Securing Windows
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1343-1-5-264762-148629-1
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2. News: Internet Explorer Takes Another Market-Share Hit
Challenges to Microsoft's Web browser dominance are mounting
as Internet Explorer loses more market share to open-source
rival Mozilla. There were other factors, too.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1343-1-5-264762-148632-1
Advances in Web Browsers
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1343-1-5-264762-148635-1
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3. News: New Phishing Attack Uses Old IE Exploit
A new phishing attack is utilizing a vulnerability in
Internet Explorer, patched early this year, to hide its true
source. Citifraud.A appears to come from a bank. Find out
more about this "high" level threat.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1343-1-5-264762-148638-1
Cyber-Crime
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1343-1-5-264762-148641-1
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4. News: Hackers Hold Cisco Source Code Hostage
The Source Code Club is selling what it says is a copy of
the source code for a recent version of Cisco's PIX
firewall. Get the details here.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1343-1-5-264762-148644-1
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5. Opinion: Firefox Is a Worthy Adversary
Mozilla browser is less complete than Internet Explorer but
is much more than just an anti-Microsoft statement. David
Coursey speaks out in favor of this open-source alternative.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1343-1-5-264762-148647-1
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6. News: MS Office 12's Secrets Begin to Trickle Out
Microsoft still isn't ready to talk publicly about Office
12, its next major release of its information-worker family
of products. But the company is briefing selected partners
and customers about the forthcoming family of Office desktop
and server products. Mary Jo Foley of Microsoft Watch has
the story.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1343-1-5-264762-148650-1
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7. News: Microsoft Readies New Office Update for Small Biz
Owners
Microsoft is set to launch on Nov. 8 its small-business
solutions strategy, one element of which will be a new
version of Microsoft Office designed expressly for the
small-business manager or owner. Mary Jo Foley of Microsoft
Watch has the story.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1343-1-5-264762-148653-1
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8. Opinion: Mac and Linux Not Immune to Viruses
Any operating system in the hands of naive users can be as
dangerous as a Windows computer. Security Editor Larry
Seltzer takes a look at the recent outbreak of OS X and
Linux worms.
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