Security Alert: IE Disk Formatting Exploit Causes Furor

Security 10967 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The publication of rogue code which can format users' hard disks if they so much as visit a Web page with Internet Explorer (or read an e-mail message with Outlook or Outlook Express) has revived a furious debate among security experts regarding the ethics of disclosing exploit code.

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Microsoft to simplify security alerts

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Microsoft is promising customers that it will simplify the security alerts it routinely issues on problems affecting its products.

The company notified customers of pending changes to security alert bulletins in an e-mail sent Tuesday to the Microsoft Security Notification Service mailing list.

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Microsoft says security push is working

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Ten months after Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates called on company employees to make Windows more trustworthy, a company executive said the initiative is paying off.

Speaking at the software giant's monthly Silicon Valley Speaker series, Craig Mundie, senior vice president for advanced strategies and policy, said that headway has been made in the company's Trustworthy Computing initiative.

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Symantec fixes Norton security flaw

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Almost a month since its initial discovery, Symantec has finally issued a fix for a serious bug in its Internet security software.

The flaw in Norton Internet Security 2003 was known to delete incoming e-mail messages from selected addresses.

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E-mail virus alert carries own worm

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A Russian antivirus company apologized Friday for an e-mailed virus alert that was infected with the very worm the message was supposedly designed to warn against.

Kaspersky Labs said the message, sent Thursday to subscribers of the company's "Virus News" e-mail dispatch, had actually been sent by hackers masquerading as the company. The hackers had managed to break into Moscow-based Kaspersky's computer system and steal the mailing list for the newsletter, the company said.

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Microsoft slammed over IE flaws

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Microsoft is still investigating flaws found last month in Internet Explorer that could allow malicious hackers to access users' passwords for e-commerce and online banking sites.

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