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Symantec Warns of New Word Attack
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| Criminals have found a new way to attack PC users, taking advantage of what
| appears to be a new bug in Microsoft's Word software, according to Symantec.
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| Symantec warned of the attack Tuesday, saying on its Web site that it had
| seen attackers exploiting "what is possibly an undisclosed vulnerability
| affecting Microsoft Word."
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/148099/symantec_warns_of_new_word_attack.html
Microsoft update kills ZoneAlarm
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| PUNTERS who use the ZoneAlarm security package might not want to install MS
| update KB951748.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/09/microsoft-update-kills
More productivity sinks for the company that made horrible
engineering 'acceptable'.
Recent (on fixing a flaw months late, only after attacks began):
After Attacks, Microsoft Fixes Jet Database Flaw
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| Security experts say that the Jet flaw (MS08-028) should be patched first,
| since it has already been exploited. Microsoft had previously warned of this
| bug in a March 21 advisory.
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| [...]
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| Microsoft also patched two critical flaws in Word and a critical Publisher
| bug.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145833/after_attacks_microsoft_fixes_jet_database_flaw.html
Related:
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| Problems found in an audit of Diebold tabulation records from an Ohio
| November 2006 election raise questions about whether the database got
| corrupted during the tabulation of election results...
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| The database is built from Microsoft's Jet database engine. The
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| engine, according to Microsoft, is vulnerable to corruption when a lot
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| of concurrent activity is happening with the database, such as what
| occurs on an election night [and Microsoft advises againt using Jet in
| a complex environment]...
|
| The report mentions that election staff had trouble with the server
| crashing and freezing on election night....
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| The report notes that with punch card machines election officials used
| to be able to determine definitively if all ballots had been counted
| in the results....
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/04/diebold_vote_da.html
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