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HomeSec Warns Again About Microsoft's Insecurity

Posted by michael on from the repatch-and-sin-no-more dept.

cbrandtbuffalo writes "The Department of Homeland Security has posted this advisory about an impending attack on MS systems. This RPC attack has already been seen in some localized systems, but may spread as unpatched computers are exploited. Some of the national news like CNN are running stories too."

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  1. Hired Pathetc Web Developer? by Jerk+City+Troll · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is it just me, or do the web pages of our GroBartige Abteilung der Vaterland-Sicherheit look like it was made by a 14 year old?

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  2. Re:Color scale? by Jagasian · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All your liberals slam the war in Iraq, but considering that our alert color is blue now after the war... when it was yellow or orange before the war... seems like proof to me that the war decreased the amount of terror in our world.

  3. Re:How big a threat is this? by melonman · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Have you tried running Open Office and KDE on that kind of spec machine? I reckon the hardware requirements to give sensible performance with a modern Linux release and OO are about the same as for XP.

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  4. Don't know. by jotaeleemeese · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You should upgrade to Linux, there you can see all this.

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