1st April 2002 Archive

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• You've got Blogs! AOL buys into homegrown media

  Acquisition spree

  "AOL gets it! Steve Case gets it!" beamed Dave Winer today, after brokering a deal that sees two hundred of the most popular weblogs become part of the AOL-Time Warner publishing empire. The media giant has acquired rights to many of the most popular blogs including Instapundit, USS Clueless, and many hitherto unheard-of sites …

  Bootnotes 1 Apr 2002, 01:47

• Cumulative IE patch for malicious cookies

  'Critical', MS says

  A fairly serious flaw in Internet Explorer which would enable a malicious Web page or e-mail to drop a cookie containing an HTML script on a victim's machine and run it in the 'Local Computer' zone rather than the Internet zone to avoid restrictions has just been patched. The script would run with the user's level of permission …

  Software 1 Apr 2002, 12:52

• Win-NT, 2K debug process gives up control

  Got root?

  A security hole in Win-NT and 2K could enable an attacker to take control by exploiting a flaw in the debugging subsystem (SMSS). Radim "EliCZ" Picha has demonstrated that it's possible for an unprivileged user to execute debug processes in the System context. At issue is an exploitable LPC (Local Procedure Call) port, to which …

  Software 1 Apr 2002, 14:22