Re: 9/6 announcment on new patch to stop hackers from stealing credit cards

From: Bill Sanderson (bill_NoSpamSanderson@msn.com)
Date: 09/07/02 

From: "Bill Sanderson" <bill_NoSpamSanderson@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 22:57:59 -0400

It seems to me that this:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=/technet/security/news/IARWSV
.asp

may be the information which is being sensationalized here.

Sharon - my advice would still be the same--use WindowsUpdate regularly and
install all security patches offered.

S. Pidgorny [MVP] wrote:
> First of all, you are obviously overreacting: the problem has pretty
> much nothing to do with credit cards. To steal CC, a hacker need to
> redirect your requests for the Web sites to his own boxes, using
> another - and rare - vulnerability in Internet infrastructure. If
> that one exists, bad people will have a number of ways to steal your
> private data.
>
> Here's the information:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-050.asp
>
>
>
> "Sharon" <seniorpcnanny@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:e4e201c25604$d472b3a0$9ee62ecf@tkmsftngxa05...
>> Can anyone tell where I find the download to the above
>> subject. I justheard today 9/6 that Microsoft has
>> ADMITTED that it is easy for hackers to break in and steal
>> your charge card numbers. I've tried to find the
>> download patch to correct this but with no success.
>>
>> Has anyone found it yet? Thank you

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