Wednesday, June 10, 2009

The bugs never stop - Microsoft shatters record with bumper patch issue


Some things just never change. Year in, year out, security holes keep getting found in that heap of festering garbage called Microsoft Windows. It masquerades as an operating system, but is really a most brilliantly conceived piece of marketing weaponry to ensure one of the biggest wastes of energy and money in human history, outside of conducting an out and out war.

Techworld.com - Microsoft shatters record with bumper patch issue

MS09-018 got his attention because Microsoft pegged the Active Directory flaw as critical, and it could be exploited remotely by simply sending a server a malicious data packet. "Someone could use this to take over Active Directory, and if they do, they'd own all [an organisation's] passwords,"
Go linux !!

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