Patch Tuesday update triggered Skype outage
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| Skype has blamed last week's prolonged outage on the effects of Microsoft's
| Patch Tuesday.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/20/skype_outage_post-mortem/
Last week:
ISP panicked by MS Patch Tuesday
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| ISP group 186K has blamed potential congestion on its network this week on
| bandwidth being swallowed by Microsoft's monthly security patch update.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/16/186k_microsoft_security_bandwidth/
Buffer the Overflow Slayer v. the ActiveX Files
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| The vulnerability was discovered by Krystian Kloskowski and is rated "highly
| critical" in this posting on Secunia. It's also discussed here on the US-Cert
| website. Proof-of-concept code can be found on MilW0rm here.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/14/sdk_spreads_vuln_love/
Highly critical flaw found in MS Excel
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| In response to Secunia's discovery, Microsoft released a highly critical
| update for Excel to resolve a workspace memory corruption vulnerability in
| addition to other security issues identified during the course of the
| investigation.
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http://dofonline.co.uk/technology/technology-2007/highly-critical-flaw-found-in-ms-excel9283.html
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