There is a severe security hole in Microsofts Internet Information Services (IIS) versions 5 and 6. “0-day” Exploit code is publicly available on the net. The error is within the FTP component. Thus Microsoft recommends as workaround to disable (anonymous) FTP on IIS, or to withdraw anonymous users the rights to create directories. A security advisory was already available but currently leads to a Bing search page. There you can see the advisory as “cached page” at least.

Opera released the final version 10 of their Web browser. It fixes some security issues and has some new and improved features. They are listed in the changelog.

The OpenOffice.org developers released OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 (changelog). This version fixes a security flaw in the Word document processing which can lead to system compromise. Users of OpenOffice.org should download the new version and update immediatly.

Dirk Knop
Technical Editor