Posted on 07/31/2003 5:26:25 PM PDT by FairOpinion
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:31:40 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
LOS ANGELES - The Department of Homeland Security has issued an unprecedented second warning to Internet users about a security flaw in Microsoft Corp. software that could leave about 75 percent of the country's computers vulnerable to hacker attacks.
The latest warning comes two weeks after Microsoft issued a bulletin notifying computer users it had discovered a critical flaw in its most common Windows operating systems, including its newest versions, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
(Excerpt) Read more at bayarea.com ...
So, don't delay, go to windowsupdate.microsoft.com (or just go to Tools in your IE, then to -- Windows update), and download the various critical patches.
Anyone with ME has already been affected (poor souls )
... and another reason why I refuse to upgrade from 98....
It'd be funny if it wasn't so trivial to boink Micro$loth's crapware with simple things like this...
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-Jay
Microsoft Wins Homeland Security Contract
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday it has awarded a five-year, $90 million enterprise (news - web sites) agreement to Microsoft Corp (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) to become the department's primary technology provider.Under the contract, Microsoft will supply desktop and server software to the newly created department, which has merged parts of 22 different agencies into one entity.
The agreement delivers licensing coverage for about 140,000 desktops and will help the department to establish a common computing environment, Homeland Security said in a statement.
Dell Marketing LP. was selected as the reseller, to provide the day-to-day management of the enterprise agreement, it said.
FR posting, September 25, 2003, by E. Pluribus Unum
Reliance on Microsoft called risk to U.S. security
SEATTLE, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Computer security experts issued a joint report on Wednesday saying that the ubiquitous reach of Microsoft Corp.'s software on desktops worldwide has made computer networks a national security risk susceptible to "massive, cascading failures."The report, unveiled at the Computer & Communications Industry Association's meeting of industry leaders and government officials in Washington, D.C., saying that Microsoft is now the number one target for malicious computer virus writers. The report's authors told CCIA -- which is funded by Microsoft rivals -- that the software's complexity has made it particularly vulnerable to attacks.
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