MS tools to send images of machines' memory to MS
Tabla bin Rasa
tbr at tbr.com
Fri Oct 19 12:17:09 PDT 2001
The Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) - whose motto is
"Keeping DOE Secure"
- this week issued a bulletin warning privacy- conscious users that
the
Internet-connected bug-reporting capabilities of Windows XP or Office
in combination
with recent versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser could
disclose sensitive data
to Microsoft.
However, it described the vulnerability as a
"medium/low" risk.
The issue, CIAC wrote in its bulletin, is that
the Windows Error Reporting feature takes
a snapshot of data stored in memory at the
time of an application failure - data that
could include content from a document
being edited at the time of a crash.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171293.html
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