Monthly Archives: December 2007 - Page 2

Microsoft Kills Bad Santa Bot for Talking Dirty to Kids

Posted by on December 5, 2007 No comments

FOXNews.com – Microsoft Kills Bad Santa Bot for Talking Dirty to Kids
Microsoft Corp. quickly shut down Santa Claus’ Web privileges after it found out the automated elf it created for kids to instant message with was talking naughty, not nice.

Last year, Microsoft encouraged kids to connect directly to “Santa” by adding northpole@live.com to their Windows Live Messenger contact lists. The Santa program, which Microsoft reactivated in early December, asked children what they wanted for Christmas and could respond on topic, thanks to artificial intelligence.

The holiday cheer soured this week when a …chat about eating pizza prompted Santa to bring up…

Attackers Target Unpatched QuickTime Flaw

Posted by on December 4, 2007 No comments

Attackers Target Unpatched QuickTime Flaw
Attackers are trying to exploit an unpatched vulnerability in Apple’s QuickTime software that could let them run code on a victim’s computer, Symantec warned in a DeepSight Threat Management System alert issued Sunday.

MS Security Adv: Vuln in Web Proxy Auto-Discovery: Info Disclosure

Posted by on December 4, 2007 No comments

Microsoft Security Advisory (945713): Vulnerability in Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) Could Allow Information Disclosure
Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in the way Windows resolves hostnames that do not include a fully-qualified domain name (FQDN). The technology that the vulnerability affects is Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD). Microsoft has not received any information to indicate that this vulnerability has been publicly used to attack customers, and Microsoft is not aware of any customer impact at this time. Microsoft is aggressively investigating the public reports. Customers whose domain name begins in a third-level or deeper domain, such as “contoso.co.us”, or for whom the following mitigating factors do not apply, are at risk from this vulnerability.