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  Daily Tech: 13 Oct 2008

  http://singaporedaily.net/2008/10/13/daily-tech-13-oct-2008/
  51 days ago in The Singapore Daily · Authority: 49

  Tech News - The Inquisitr: Apple to launch $800 laptop - NYT: YouTube to Offer TV Shows With Ads Strewn Through - The Inquirer: Nvidia 270, 290 and GX2 roll out in November - Infoworld: Worst Windows flaws of the past decade - Apple 2.0: Spotlight on Apple notebooks: 1989 to 2008 - Gizmodo: Richard Garriott Reaches Orbit, Can Finally Act Out Plot of Tabula Rasa - VideoGamer: PC gamer market in ‘tatters’, says Molyneux - Shacknews: StarCraft 2 Now A Trilogy, Three Campaigns to Be Split Into Separate Games - Game|Life: Video: Diablo III’s Wizard Reviews | Guides - Tom’s Hardware: The Best Graphics Cards for the Money: October 2008 - Hardware Infos: Nvidia Geforce G, GS, GT and GTX - OC3D: Waterblock Shootout - BurnOutPC: Antec Mini P180 - TrustedReviews: Nokia N96 - I4U: Coosh Headset for iPod/iPhone Review SG Tech - 65bits: Episode 92 : In Mother Russia, the OS boots you! - The eOK .network: Plurk isn’t a game changer… yet - theory.isthereason: Making silky smooth videos with the affordable Hague Mini Motion Cam
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  Worst Windows bugs of the last 10 years

  http://www.dvhardware.net/article30467.html
  51 days ago in DV Hardware - Searching the web 24/7 for the best tech news · Authority: 95

  Worst Windows bugs of the last 10 years Posted on Sunday, October 12 2008 @ 15:42:01 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck InfoWorld looks back at the worst flaws in Windows of the past decade. Here's one of the embarrassing security flaws that was discovered in October 2000 in Windows 9x: Windows 9x introduced a nifty little concept wherein users could host a password-protected mini file server, aka a share, on their PCs. The idea was simple: Allow users of networked computers to host and share files securely. Only the padlock Microsoft used to lock the door came equipped with a gaping hole that rendered it useless. "When processing authentication requests for a NetBIOS share, Windows 95/98 would look at the length of the password sent by the attacker and then only compare that number of bytes to the real password," writes vulnerability expert H.D. Moore, who manages the Metasploit Framework project. Oops. "This let the attack specify a password of zero bytes and gain access to the share," without actually knowing the password at all, Moore explains. "The real damage," he continues, "was that by trying all characters of incrementing lengths, they could literally obtain the password for share from the server."
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  Worst Windows Flaws of the Past Decade

  http://technichristian.net/?p=292
  56 days ago in technichristian.net · Authority: 3

  June 25, 1998, and June 30, 2008, marked two important milestones in Microsoft’s evolution of the Windows OS — the passing of the torch from Windows 95 to Windows 98, and the less seemly transition from XP to Vista. In the 3,659 days between, users of Windows have been forced to bear witness to another evolution of sorts: bugs that left Windows open to exploits that appeared almost as fast as you could say, “On the Origin of Species.” [IMG [Slashdot]] [IMG [Digg]] [IMG [Reddit]] [IMG [del.icio.us]] [IMG [Facebook]] [IMG [Technorati]] [IMG [Google]] [IMG [StumbleUpon]]
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  Geekazine Podcast #54 10-08-08 - My Sick Truck

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  56 days ago in Geekazine · Authority: 18

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  A history of bugs in Windows

  http://zonepc.co.uk/2008/10/07/a-history-of-bugs-in-windows/
  56 days ago in Zone PC - PC, Windows and Microsoft News and Updates · Authority: 1

  Over at InfoWorld, there is an article Worst Windows flaws of the past decade. It’s a good reminder of why it is important to apply security patches as soon as they are available. The article recaps how malware writers exploited the security holes in Windows over the past ten years.
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  A history of bugs in Windows

  http://tips.vlaurie.com/2008/10/07/a-history-of-bugs-in-wind...
  56 days ago in The PC Informant · Authority: 5

  Over at InfoWorld, there is an article Worst Windows flaws of the past decade. It’s a good reminder of why it is important to apply security patches as soon as they are available. The article recaps how malware writers exploited the security holes in Windows over the past ten years.

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