“Microsoft is rushing to fix a flaw introduced by the company's latest security update to Internet Explorer. From the article: 'The flaw, initially thought to only crash Internet Explorer, actually allows an attacker to run code on computers running Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Pack 1 that have applied the August cumulative update to Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1, security firm eEye Digital Security asserted. The update, released on August 8, fixed eight security holes but also introduced a bug of its own, according to Marc Maiffret, chief hacking officer for the security firm, which notified Microsoft last week that the issue is exploitable.'”Meanwhile, kiddies, I am not the first to wonder whether all those nifty voting machines out there, which run (yeah, I know you don't want to hear this) on Windows, get all these handy-dandy updates Microsoft keeps pumping out or whether they are just, you know, what they are. Or aren't.
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