The Windows SMB2 security hole remains open and with malware out now that can take advantage of it, it's more dangerous than ever, but there's still no patch for it.
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An Oregon-based Web application developer Friday confirmed he has hired the teenager who admitted attacking Twitter with several different worms last weekend.
A security researcher has upgraded a tool that simplifies the placement of difficult-to-detect malware in Microsoft's .Net framework on Windows computers.
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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