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Get Ready: Windows XP SP3 On Tap
David Utter
Staff Writer
2008-07-09
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Microsoft pegged July 10th at 1 pm EDT as the release date and time for the third service pack for the Windows XP operating system.
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Though delayed by issues in the past, including a couple in the past three months, Microsoft's SP3 for Windows XP should start hitting machines running the OS and Automatic Update on Thursday afternoon.
Microsoft disclosed the update schedule on its support pages. This will be pushed out to machines eligible for the service pack, something that administrators will want to anticipate.
InfoWorld noted the automatic arrival of the new service pack can be stopped by either modifying Automatic Update, or by using a service pack blocker from Microsoft to halt it.
Woops, sorry Justice Breyer: Peer to peer software exposed clients of an investment firm to outsiders, making personally identifiable details available for theft. One of the clients: Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer.
Data on some 2,000 clients of Wagner Resource Group ended up on LimeWire after a Wagner employee installed that software on a company computer. The Washington Post said names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers for 700 of those clients evidently have been online for as long as six months. The rest of the clients only had a couple of those pieces of information exposed.
One lawyer/Wagner client cited in the report received a $9,000 cellphone bill from AT&T, after someone used his date of birth and Social Security details to open an account. The bill was subsequently canceled.
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David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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