Today's Patch Tuesday fixes from Microsoft include six critical bulletins that head off potential attacks involving poisoned media files and Web pages, along with wireless and TCP/IP security holes. An under-attack FTP flaw remains unfixed.
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Sony is refreshing its Walkman line with new flagship models that pack noise cancelling, a bright touchscreen display, mobile TV, and the ability to surf the Internet and watch YouTube videos.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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