Security
MS URGES FAST FIX OF CRITICAL IIS FLAW | News SearchSecurity.com (11/21/02) Microsoft has issued a critical advisory, warning users of a vulnerability discovered in a component of its IIS Web server and Internet Explorer Web browser. The flaw exists in several versions of Microsoft Data Access Components, components that allow programs to access and manipulate databases, and it could allow an outsider to take over a Web server, spread an e-mail virus or spawn a network worm. Millions of PCs running Windows 2000, 98 and 95 could be affected, too. http//www.searchsecurity.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci864924,00.html
Here are 13 things you need to do to lock down laptops. | News searchWin2000.com (12/30/02) People use laptop computers everywhere and for everything. Critical, sensitive corporate and private data goes with them, and is as vulnerable to attack, theft and destruction as a small child's lunch money when the school bully comes around. And yet even those charged with maintaining notebooks for corporate users still don't know diddly about locking them down. http//searchwin2000.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid1_gci853138,00.html?FromTaxonomy=/pr/292929
Unmasking a Microsoft Imposter | watch where the email is comming from http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid1_gci878795,00.html