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Wednesday, August 9, 2006
The land of insecure operating systems, Windows, has once again gained a gaping whole larger than Bill Gates bank account balance. With a vulnerability so bad, it has cause the Homeland Security department to issue a warning to Microsoft Windows user nationwide. “Users are encouraged to avoid delay in applying this security patch,” the Department of Homeland Security said in the statement.
This hole is bad as that MSBlast issue from 2003 and since so many don’t ever update their systems, even if Microsoft really tried with Automatic Updates, it’s a near guarentte well see problems for a while. So, if you don’t want to be part of this lot, update today!
Ugh, I can’t wait ’til my MacBook Pro’s battery comes in so I can use it and feel safe again.
[Via c|net]