Windows Small Business Server at risk from critical flaw
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InfoWorld - Microsoft said Wednesday that another one of its operating system products is vulnerable toÂ a critical vulnerability, first patched two weeks ago.
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A highly critical and unpatched security hole in Microsoft&#39;s ubiquitous Word software could be used to launch a denial of service attack and give system access.
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Outside security researchers say Windows Service Pack 2 has security vulnerabilities, but no confirmation from Microsoft. By George V. Hulme.
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The emergence of a new Internet virus targeting a Microsoft Windows security flaw could cause more damage than usual because the company&#39;s system for fixing the problem is so complex that many
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ProKras writes &quot;German magazine PC-Welt has discovered a major security flaw in Windows XP SP2 when installing over SP1. The article says that &#39;with a certain configuration, your file and printer sharing data
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Web servers may be vulnerable to attack, security company warns.
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A hacker has released attack code that could be used to exploit a critical bug in some versions of the Windows operating system.
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MICROSOFT Corpâs recent release of Service Pack 2 for Windows XP saw the company dealing head-on with the security issues that have plagued the operating system since its release.
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Servers for small businesses are one of the fastest-growing areas of the IT market, according to market researcher IDC. Much of this is down to the Small Business Server (SBS) software
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The newly discovered vulnerabilities could leave systems open to remote attacks, according to antivirus companies. Microsoft has not yet announced fixes.
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Security experts are warning of a new and highly critical security flaw in Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Internet Explorer, when running under Windows XP SP2.
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A Chinese security group has released sample code to exploit two new unpatched flaws in Microsoft Windows. The advisory comes in the week before Christmas, a time when many companies and home users are least prepared to deal with the problems.
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If you rely on technology to run your small business, you know how easily a virus can destroy your data - and potentially years of hard work.
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Microsoft product managers Friday claimed that a data corruption bug in Windows Home Server crops up only when the system is under an &quot;extreme load,&quot; but also defended their decision to sound a general alarm before they had completed their investigation.The news that Windows Home Server (WHS) could corrupt files raised a storm of criticism from customers and observers alike.&quot;The problem isn&#39;t one hundred percent reproducible, and depends on quite a few different factors,&quot; explained Todd Headrick, the product planning manager on the Windows Home Server (WHS) team. &quot;Home Server has to be under an extreme load while doing a large file copy,&quot; he said, adding that the flaw comes into play only in instances when the file server&#39;s cache is full and the user is editing a file previously saved to a shared folder.&quot;But we thought it was important enough to generalize [the bug] so people would take it seriously, even though we took a PR [public relations] hit,&quot; Headrick added.Wednesday,&#160;Microsoft warned users&#160;in a tightly worded support document not to edit files stored on their servers with certain programs. &quot;Files may become corrupted when you save them to the home server,&quot; Microsoft said in KB946676, which it published last week to its support site.Saying that the bug was in the shared folders feature of WHS, the document urged users to stop using seven Microsoft applications, including Windows Vista Photo Gallery, Windows Live Photo Gallery, OneNote 2003, OneNote 2007, Outlook 2007, Microsoft Money 2007 and SyncToy 2.0 Beta under some conditions. &quot;We recommend that do not use the programs to save or to edit program-specific files that are stored on a Windows Home Server-based system,&quot; the document read.That wide-ranging recommendation caught the eye of WHS users and Microsoft critics alike. Some sounded white-hot.&quot;I&#39;ve had a fair share of files corrupted,&quot; a user identified as Shane K claimed on the WHS support forum. &quot;I have 800+ gigs of data on my home server and I&#39;ve had just about every file type you can imagine refuse to open or at sometime go to 0KB file size for no reason. This issue has been around for MONTHS so I don&#39;t know why suddenly the WHS team decides to &#39;work through the holidays&#39; to resolve it when there has been plenty of action on the boards since beta about this issue.&quot;Others misunderstood Microsoft&#39;s warning, and assumed that client backups to WHS would end up corrupted, which wasn&#39;t true. &quot;This could potentially be the &#39;my dog ate my homework&#39; for the 21st century,&quot; said a user named BVis on a Slashdot.org thread that tracked Computerworld&#39;s original story. &quot;&#39;I did my homework, but the power went out before I could save it, and my backups were all corrupt!&#39;&quot;&quot;People read things into [the KB],&quot; said Headrick. &quot;I heard people say &#39;Don&#39;t use the computer backup,&#39; but there were no problems whatsoever with Windows Home Server backup.&quot;Headrick and Joel Sider, a WHS senior product manager, both defended the decision to issue the warning. &quot;This is a very serious issue,&quot; said Headrick. &quot;We take any [data] corruption issue very seriously.&quot;&quot;We went with the amount of information we had at the time,&quot; said Sider. &quot;We had seen a reproducible problem, but we hadn&#39;t created a reproducible environment yet.&quot;&quot;We didn&#39;t have any more information, other than we were working on the problem, which we&#39;d already said,&quot; echoed Headrick in explaining why the team left the original support document untouched until late Friday. Then,&#160;Microsoft updated KB946676&#160;to include some of the same information that Headrick and Sider discussed in their interview with Computerworld.&quot;You can still use the WHS home computer backup to back up and restore files from and to your home computers,&quot; the revised document read.Headrick promised that the WHS team would work around the clock to come up with a permanent patch for the corruption bug, and would release it first as a hotfix that users would have to download manually from the Microsoft site. He refused to set a schedule for its release, however, saying only that the developers would have something to test &quot;in fairly short order.&quot;At some later date, the fix will be pushed to all WHS customers via Windows Update, Microsoft&#39;s update service, with the process determined by the server software&#39;s Automatic Updates settings, Headrick promised. He also said that although the WHS team was aware of file corruption reports related to Torrent applications, Intuit Inc.&#39;s Quicken personal finance program and Intuit&#39;s QuickBooks small business accounting software, it has not been able to reproduce the bug on its test systems. In addition, Headrick put the responsibility for any problems with Quicken on users&#39; shoulders.&quot;Quicken [data] was never meant to be stored on a network share,&quot; said Headrick.Computerworld&#160;is an InfoWorld affiliate.&#160;
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A flaw in Microsoft&#39;s security server software could allow an attacker to fool business users into thinking that malicious content can be trusted, the software giant warned on Tuesday.
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Windows XP Service Pack 2 promises to raise the security bar for the sometimes beleaguered operating system. Unfortunately, one of the new features could be spoofed so that it reports misleading information
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Microsoft Windows users need to watch out for several flaws in non-Microsoft media players.