Thursday, November 18. 2004
Lots of security news today
An email worm purporting to be news about Arafat's death is exploiting MS04-032 and providing backdoors for hackers. The email has the subject "Latest News about Arafat!!!".
Secunia has warned of 3 new unpatched IE vulnerabilities, 2 of which are listed as "critical". Use FireFox instead.
Steve Ballmer of Microsoft has warned Asian governments that are switching to Linux that they will be sued because Linux contains "more than 228" patent violations. No word on who would be doing the suing, or where he got his information. Singapore recently converted 20,000 desktop machines to Linux. In a Register column:
Secunia has warned of 3 new unpatched IE vulnerabilities, 2 of which are listed as "critical". Use FireFox instead.
Steve Ballmer of Microsoft has warned Asian governments that are switching to Linux that they will be sued because Linux contains "more than 228" patent violations. No word on who would be doing the suing, or where he got his information. Singapore recently converted 20,000 desktop machines to Linux. In a Register column:
According to a Reuters report (which we fervently hope will produce one of Ballmer's fascinating 'I was misquoted' rebuttals), Ballmer told Microsoft's Asian Government Leaders Forum that Linux violates more than 228 patents. Come on Steve, don't hold back - what you mean 'more than 228' - 229? 230? Don't pull your punches to soften the blow to the community. "Some day," he continued, "for all countries that are entering the WTO [World Trade Organization], somebody will come and look for money owing to the rights for that intellectual property."
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