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Re: Important Microsoft Patch Released Today


From: "Basgen, Brian" <bbasgen () PIMA EDU>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:45:25 -0700

 They are holding a webcast for this in about an hour:
   
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032393978&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US


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Brian Basgen
Information Security
Pima Community College


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[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Adam Carlson
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:41 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Important Microsoft Patch Released Today

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A member of our IT staff pointed this out to me today.  This sounds
like
a very serious vulnerability that could lead to the first Microsoft
worm
in a few years.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx

Gotta love remote code execution.

- -Adam


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Adam Carlson
Chief Security Officer
Information Technology
Residential and Student Service Programs
Tel: 510-643-0631
Mobile: 510-220-2477
Email: ajcarlson () berkeley edu

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