Microsoft Security Failure (should have stayed with AS/400)

from Al Macintyre

News from another list that I am on, illustrating the high price Microsoft is 
paying for the decision to leave the most secure computer system manufacturer 
in the world, because of pride in need to run their own business on their own 
creations before they really ready to handle that scale of operations.

Subj:    [e-com-sec] Microsoft Security Failure
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Dear Members

Reports are coming in this morning that Microsoft security has
been breached. I attach the latest details from the BBC web site.

David

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_993000/993826.stm

Hackers hit Microsoft

Software giant Microsoft has said hackers had broken into the
company's computers in what it called "a deplorable act of
industrial espionage".
Microsoft said the break-in, which was discovered by security
staff on Wednesday, was being investigated by the company and the
US Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The hackers were thought to have had access to source codes behind
Microsoft's software for three months and could have stolen
crucial blueprints of the firm's Windows and Office products.

"Microsoft is moving aggressively to isolate the problem and to
secure our corporate network," a company spokesman was quoted by
Reuters as saying.

"We are confident that the integrity of our source code remains
secure."

More soon.

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