Boy, there's a shock
Published July 20, 2003
Just a day after the US Department of Homeland Security announced a five-year, $US90 million ($A137.51 million) contract with Microsoft, the company has released details of three more vulnerabilities in its products, with one being a critical vulnerability in some versions of the Windows operating system. [...] "This is one of the worst Windows vulnerabilities ever," said Marc Maiffret, chief hacking officer at eEye Digital Security Inc, of Aliso Viejo, California, whose researchers discovered similar flaws in at least three earlier versions of Windows. He said that vulnerable corporations "will be Swiss cheese" until they installed the patches - "anybody can walk in and out of their servers".
Do you suppose we will ever see a news release where Microsoft releases a new version of Windows which has been proven to contain no flaws at all? I'm not holding my breath.
- Boy, there's a shock
- Published: July 20, 2003
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- Writer: James Russell
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