Paul Wilders
October 1st, 2002, 05:37 AM
A recent XP security hole begs the question, do we really want Microsoft to release individual fixes for every bug?
By Tim Mullen Sep 30, 2002
On August 15th, Shane Hird published the details of a potentially serious issue with the Windows XP Help and Support Center where the contents of a known directory could be deleted if an attacker tricked someone into executing a maliciously formatted URL. At the time, there was no published patch, and no official work-around.
For the most part, it went widely unnoticed. Well, that may be a generalization -- I failed to notice it, as did all of the security people I know, but that doesn't mean the bad guys didn't tuck the information away into their cache of "crappy things to do to people when you're a script kiddie."
read more (http://online.securityfocus.com/columnists/112)
By Tim Mullen Sep 30, 2002
On August 15th, Shane Hird published the details of a potentially serious issue with the Windows XP Help and Support Center where the contents of a known directory could be deleted if an attacker tricked someone into executing a maliciously formatted URL. At the time, there was no published patch, and no official work-around.
For the most part, it went widely unnoticed. Well, that may be a generalization -- I failed to notice it, as did all of the security people I know, but that doesn't mean the bad guys didn't tuck the information away into their cache of "crappy things to do to people when you're a script kiddie."
read more (http://online.securityfocus.com/columnists/112)