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[News] [Rival] Cause for Massive Skype Downtime Finally Identified: Microsoft

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Cause for Massive Skype Downtime Finally Identified: Microsoft
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:27:00 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
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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