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The Search Engine Report - Number 83
In This Issue
+ Search Engine Watch News
+ SES Chicago Agenda Available!
+ Search Engine Articles By Danny Sullivan
+ Search Engine Resources
+ SearchDay Articles
+ Search Engine Articles

http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/3088721

Microsoft Sued for 'Massive, Cascading Failures'

A lot of people say MS should be held financially responsible for security vulnerabilities in Windows. Meanwhile, whenever a security vulnerability in UNIX/Linux systems is reported, the usual response is "well, of course no operating system can be completely secure.

http://www.winxpnews.com/index.cfm?id=96"

Software makers usually are not held liable for product flaws, because users must agree to licensing contracts that protect makers from liability.

But this suit takes a novel approach. It claims that Microsoft software, with a greater than 90-percent market share, is so dominant that there is little choice but to use it. Because of Windows' ubiquity, argues Hamilton's attorney, Dana B. Taschner, Microsoft cannot avoid responsibility.

Taschner, based on Newport Beach, California, specializes in plaintiff law and is a member of the America Bar Association's E-Privacy Committee.

http://www.winxpnews.com/index.cfm?id=96

http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/22417.html#story-start

QHost-1 Trojan changes DNS settings, exploits IE
New details have emerged about a mysterious Trojan that has been changing domain name server settings on systems since yesterday.

Dubbed QHost-1 by antivirus software vendors, the Trojan changes DNS settings and renders some network-dependent services such as e-mail and Web surfing unavailable for corporate users.

Fixing systems hit by QHost isn't difficult. Security service provider Counterpane Internet Security Inc. recommends changing the DNS server settings back to their original settings. One could also obtain DNS settings from DHCP. Correcting the registry keys created by QHost is another fix.

QHost takes advantage of a new "object type" vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. Exploits were discovered last weekend, alerting security experts to the flaw, which is related to a flaw Microsoft patched in August.

QHost's success likely will be limited because the Trojan cannot spread on its own. Users must be lured to a malicious Web site.…

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-032.asp

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci930281,00.html