Microsoft Patches ANI Security Flaw

After some uncertainty, the I.T. world is both breathing a sigh of relief and gearing up for a long afternoon as Microsoft delivered a promised security patch on Tuesday.The ANI cursor flaw patch fixes a dangerous Windows animated cursor vulnerability that leaves the door wide open for attackers to take complete control of a computer system. It is one of only a few out-of-cycle patches released since Microsoft launched its “Patch Tuesday” concept.

“The issue with the ANI cursor flaw is the severity of not just the vulnerability but the active exploitation of it,” said Craig Schmugar, threat research manager for McAfee Avert Labs. “Usually people are balancing risk of deploying the patch versus the risk of not deploying the patch. In this case, the risk of not deploying is high.”

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Will the EU Topple Apple’s iTunes Empire?

The European Commission on Tuesday said it has launched an antitrust probe into Apple’s iTunes, its method of selling music over the Internet, and its agreements with major record labels.Distribution agreements Apple has inked with record labels to sell their music on the iTunes Music Store in European Union countries “contain territorial sales restrictions which violate” EU competition rules, the Commission claimed, noting that consumers are restricted to downloading singles or albums from the iTunes site in their own countries. Prices vary from country to country.

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