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 Topic: MicrosoftThe new items published under this topic are as follows.
Hackers Target Microsoft's JPEG Flaw
Posted by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - 04:23 AM
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| NEW YORK (AP) - In a harbinger of security threats to come, hackers have exploited a newly announced flaw in Microsoft Corp. programs and begun circulating malicious code hidden in images that use the popular JPEG format. Software tools to create the malicious images began appearing last month, and this week security experts saw images employing them posted on adult-oriented Usenet newsgroups.
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Amazon, Microsoft team against online fraud
Posted by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - 04:22 AM
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| LOS ANGELES, Sept 28, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Amazon.com, the world's largest online retailer, and Microsoft, the world's largest software developer, announced Tuesday the filing of several lawsuits against phishers and spammers.
The lawsuits focused phishers and spammers who targeted consumers by spoofing Amazon.com's domain name and perpetrating phishing scams with spoofed Amazon.com Web sites, Microsoft said.
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Microsoft: Spyware Could Bungle Update
Posted by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 - 06:49 AM
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| SEATTLE (AP) - Though Microsoft Corp.'s new security update package is all about protecting systems from worms, viruses and spyware, it can't do much about what's already on computers - and that could pose a problem. The company is warning users of the Windows XP operating system to check for spyware before downloading the free massive security update, called Service Pack 2.
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Microsoft Releases Windows Security Update
Posted by: Anonymous on Monday, August 09, 2004 - 05:50 PM
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| REDMOND, Wash. (AP) - Microsoft Corp. released a long-awaited security update for Windows XP computers on Friday, a response to the growing number of security shortcomings in the market-dominant operating system. The free upgrade won't be available to everyone right away, however. Microsoft said the timing will depend on several factors, including customers' Internet usage, location and language as well as the overall demand for the package, dubbed Service Pack 2.
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Gates touts computer science
Posted by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 05, 2004 - 08:18 PM
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| Does the U.S. computer-science industry need a Sputnik moment?
It wouldn't hurt, Bill Gates said yesterday, answering a question from a university researcher about declining computer-science enrollment and concerns over funding for science and math programs. The Microsoft Corp. chairman said it might take a big technological advance somewhere else in the world to direct the attention of the nation's leaders to the issue in the same way that the Soviet Union's 1957 Sputnik launch accelerated development of the U.S. space program.
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Suspect works at Microsoft
Posted by: Anonymous on Monday, July 12, 2004 - 06:55 AM
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| A Kirkland man arrested last week on allegations that he stole proprietary technology from the AltaVista search engine two years ago is a Microsoft Corp. employee who has been working on the Redmond company's MSN Search initiative. Federal authorities allege that Laurent Chavet, a former AltaVista employee, illegally accessed the California company's computer system in March 2002 and June 2002, after he left AltaVista and well before he went to work for Microsoft. Chavet, then living in California, copied to his home computer source code that was used by AltaVista "to perform the function of scouring the World Wide Web," according to an FBI affidavit.
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Microsoft-SAP: The E-Mail Trail
Posted by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 05:37 AM
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| So it turns out the proposed merger that never happened between Microsoft and German software giant SAP started with a simple Saturday afternoon e-mail from Microsoft Chairman William Gates to CEO Steve Ballmer. It was June 7, 2003, the day after Oracle (ORCL) shocked the computer industry by announcing a hostile takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft (PSFT), and Gates wondered what Microsoft (MSFT) should do about it in an e-mail with the subject line, "PeopleSoft and SAP and us??"
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