Windows Vulnerabilities Revealed, Patched

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday July 16, 2003 @10:34AM from the information-is-good dept.

Saint Aardvark writes "A big MS Windows remote vulnerability has just hit BugTraq. It concerns a buffer overflow in MS' DCOM, and affects Win2k through Server 2003; here's the security advisory from Microsoft. This is in addition to an earlier vulnerability concerning conversion from HTML to RTF - there's a separate security advisory from Microsoft for this one, and it affects Win98 and NT 4.0 through Server 2003. Patch early, patch often." There's also a CNET News story with a little more explanation on the newest vulnerability.

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Not so fast..... by isotope23 · 2003-07-16 11:12 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Remember Panama and/or Iraq?

We couldn't extradite Noriega so we invaded. What's to stop the US from just grabbing people?
Sure it would piss off governments but at the moment we don't seem to care too much about that.
In addition we can now class hackers as terrorists, and refuse to even admit they are in our custody.
Plus we can now hold them indefinately or prosecute them via secret court proceedings.

Thus noone will ever know their fate......

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