Day: 3 March 2010
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Slackware current issues
I’ve been running Slackware-current ( the development version of Slackware ) for probably close to 5 years now. For the most part, it’s a pretty uneventful stream of upgrades however, every once in a while things get interesting. The March 1 update is massive, has taken a month to release and includes around 465 updated…
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Remember that 17-year old bug in Windows …
… I spoke about in late January? Well Microsoft has finally come out and acknowledged it. Over a month later. Well actually 9 months later. The hole, which originated with the release of Windows NT back in 1993 and is present in every 32-bit version of Windows since, including Windows 7, was discovered by Tavis…
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Another IE hole
Another flaw has been found in versions 7 and 8 of Internet Explorer running on Windows XP. There’s an unpatched bug in VBScript that hackers can use to drop malware on 32-bit Windows XP machines. Microsoft says an exploit “was posted publicly that could allow an attacker to host a maliciously crafted web page and…
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Another Windows hole
A new critical flaw has been found in all versions of Windows since Windows 2000 and affects even current releases like Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. The vulnerability was found by 2X Software which says that the flaw can be used to create a DoS attack against any Windows systems from the last 10…
