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Microsoft: Human error caused critical SMB2 vulnerability

did not explain why the fix was not back-ported to Windows Vista and other That very bad. I was wondering this myself when news broke that Win 7 was not vulnerable.What were they thinking? Fixing a bug and "forgetting" that other versions may actually be vulnerable?Or had they actually recorded...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Hulu Desktop, Microsoft Corp., critical SMB2 vulnerability, SMB2, SMB2 vulnerability, vulnerability, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

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Blog posts 2009-10-20

Microsoft: Human error caused critical SMB2 vulnerability

Microsoft is blaming human error for the the critical SMB v2 vulnerability that exposed Windows users to remote code execution attacks by Ryan Naraine

Tags: Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Error, Smb/Sme, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Microsoft ships one-click 'workaround' for critical SMB2 flaw

With exploit code in circulation and facing a race against time to fix the SMB v2 vulnerability haunting Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, Microsoft has shipped a one-click "fix-it" workaround to help users avoid malicious hacker attacks. by Ryan Naraine

Tags: Workaround, Flaw, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Smb/Sme, Hacking, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-09-18