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    Microsoft was soundly jammed between a rock and a hard place in the weeks leading up to the disclosure of a vulnerability that would allow Xbox owners to run Linux on the games console. What were the lessons learned?

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    Microsoft has been forced to upgrade its latest security advisory after a problem it originally classified as a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability was found to be much more serious by security researchers.

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  • Microsoft upgrades threat rating on server flaw

    Microsoft has been forced to upgrade its latest security advisory after a problem it originally classified as a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability was found to be much more serious by security researchers.

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    Two vulnerabilities have been found in Microsoft's Biztalk server software, the most serious of which could allow an attacker to fully compromise a targeted Biztalk server.

  • Microsoft learned from open source: Security boss

    The director of Microsoft's product security, George Stathakopoulos, has told ZDNet Australia that the software giant has learned security lessons from the wider software community.

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    Linux users can now run Office XP on Linux following the release of a commercial application that allows the package to run on the open source operating system.

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    A simple flaw in Internet Explorer 6.0 causes the browser to crash when it views pages containing malicious HTML code, a security researcher has found.

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