Monday, April 7th, 2008 Recycling an old social engineering technique and using two different attack methods, a new spam run emerges as a threat to Web users before Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday. And not because it exploits soon-to-be named vulnerabilities.What this spamming operation takes advantage of is the anticipation itself for the release of patches ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008 Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said his company might ship a new version of its Windows operating system as soon as 2009.The news agency Reuters quoted Gates on Friday as saying that Windows 7 may be released "sometime in the next year or so." That would put the software ahead of ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Microsoft said Thursday that it plans to release eight software updates for the Windows operating system and Internet Explorer Web browser to patch security holes, five of which the company described as "critical."Microsoft said it plans to release the updates on April 8. PC users can determine if they need ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Spammers are once again using web bugs to verify the validity of of email addresses. This time the trick is not done with graphics but with digital certificates. Alexander Klink from German consultants Cynops has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft products – or possibly in the Crypto API – that ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 Microsoft has released a Knowledge Base article to help users who are having problems getting Vista SP1 from the Windows Update site. Here's a list of possible causes they have come up with so far:You are already running Windows Vista SP1.
Windows Vista SP1 has not been released for the language ...
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