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Microsoft

Submission + - 2 major security bugs found in Vista

joetheprogrammer writes: "After a mind-numbing wait as Vista is beta-tested, the recently released version to corporations is found to have 2 major flaws that Microsoft needs to fix, thanks to a Russian programmer who discovered them.

The flaw is a symbolic blow to Microsoft, which has spent five and a half years developing Vista. The software, which was launched two years later than originally planned, is the biggest upgrade to the operating system since the release of Windows 95 and Microsoft focused heavily on improving security.
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Quickies

Submission + - Geeky Wedding Proposals

stewartj writes: "I'm about to get married, and I proposed to my fiancee in a fairly normal fashion — romantic dinner, flowers, chocolate strawberries, on one knee and pop the question. I remember reading that Jerry Kaplan (pioneer of pen computing) proposed to his girlfriend using one of the early prototypes of the PDA, and I wondered what other super geeky ways Slashdot readers had proposed to their spouses?"
Security

Submission + - PayPal launches Virtual Debit Card

IpSo_ writes: "You can use PayPal Virtual Debit Card when making online purchases anywhere MasterCard is accepted. Basically it generates a virtual card number each time you make a transaction online so you don't have to use your personal debit or credit card number. Will people be more comfortable making online purchases with this, or will it flop because its too much of an inconvenience?"
Software

Submission + - Asterisk 1.4.0 released!

Russell Bryant writes: "The Asterisk dev team has released Asterisk 1.4.0, the first in the 1.4 series. The Asterisk project releases a major version about once a year. This series includes T.38 Fax over IP passthrough support, HTML manager, a new version of AEL (Asterisk Extension Language), IMAP storage of voicemail, Jabber/GoogleTalk integration, a jitterbuffer for RTP, whisper paging, and many more other new features."

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