It's Thursday, time for the weekly M$ software bug report!
Microsoft Discloses Software Flaw From Wired magazine & the Associated Press.
Just to build your confidence in M$:
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A researcher with eEye Digital Security, Riley Hassell, found the Web server flaw in mid-April during testing of eEye's own hacker-defense software, but the discovery was kept closely guarded under an agreement with Microsoft until Wednesday.
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Italics mine.
Makes you feel warm and fuzzy, don't it?
In the defense of M$, according to them, only about one-third of the world's web sites are running this version of their server software. So, they were only putting 33% of their marketshare at risk by holding this information. Oh well, no big deal, I guess.
Apple uses Apache.
Think Different.
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