civileme wrote: > http://www.itworld.com/Sec/2199/020329nt2000hole/ > > Why isn't this news exciting? > > Civileme >
Well, I don't know about exciting, but it helps me out as an evangelist. My mom is now happily using LM8.1 because of this type of attitude. Certainly not suprising if anyof you have browsed the archives at securityFocus: Windows advisory: Hole X gives you access to C:\* and here's how to do it into the comfort of your own home. MS has assigned a crew of secretaries to investigate once they get off vacation as the security team is cramming more code into MS office ??. Linux advisory: there is a possible exploit in some library that some attacker might be able to somehow manipulate into kicking you offline for a couple minutes. download the fix here: with the exception of enabeling so much crap on boot by default (sunrpc), I think linux wins this one too, and that MS better wipe their ass before some wipes their customers HDDs. -- Jason Guidry http://www.gmaestro.org
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