Eye on Microsoft: Michigan Airport Security Issues, Wal-Mart Cracked, 34 New Vulnerabilities

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2009-10-14 08:15:01 UTC
Modified: 2009-10-14 08:15:01 UTC

Summary: Windows security news from the past few days range from large impact to very large impact; Microsoft still drowns in "critical" vulnerabilities

● Michigan airport grounds website over malware risk [the Web site runs Windows Server based on case insensitivity]

An airport in Michigan reportedly took down its website late on Monday in response to a computer virus risk.

● Big-Box Breach: The Inside Story of Wal-Mart’s Hacker Attack

Wal-Mart uncovered the breach in November 2006, after a fortuitous server crash led administrators to a password-cracking tool that had been surreptitiously installed on one of its servers. Wal-Mart’s initial probe traced the intrusion to a compromised VPN account, and from there to a computer in Minsk, Belarus.

● Record number of patches for Windows?

[It's] being reported that fixes to 34 vulnerabilities are being released which does beg the question, how much faith do you have in the security of Microsoft products? Sure they have released patches to exploitable holes, but how many more are they and why (in the case of XP) is the system still proving vulnerable after all this time?

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Eye on Microsoft: Michigan Airport Security Issues, Wal-Mart Cracked, 34 New Vulnerabilities

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