NetFlash: Hackers publish code for critical IE bug

The code to take over a user’s computer via Internet Explorer is out, but a patch is not. All the user has to do is go to a Web site that takes advantage of a JavaScript vulnerability in Microsoft’s browser. The solution? Disable “active scripting” – or use a different browser. Hackers publish code for critical IE bug http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/112105-ie-bug.html?net&story=112105-ie-bug

The code to take over a user’s computer via Internet Explorer is out, but a patch is not. All the user has to do is go to a Web site that takes advantage of a JavaScript vulnerability in Microsoft’s browser. The solution? Disable “active scripting” – or use a different browser.

Hackers publish code for critical IE bug

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/112105-ie-bug.html?net&story=112105-ie-bug

The FBI isn’t after you – at least not via e-mail

The FBI is letting everyone know that it is not a spammer, that it is not the one sending out e-mail messages that say the FBI is monitoring your Internet use. The FBI is not denying that it’s monitoring your Internet use – just denying that it would actually tell you about it in e-mail.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/112105-fbi-e-mail.html?net&story=112105-fbi-e-mail

State Street Bank gets productivity gains from advanced WAN

When it comes to its next-generation network infrastructure, State Street takes no shortcuts. “The devil is in the details,” says Gordon Bither, senior vice president for integration network solutions at State Street, the world’s largest institutional investment company, with $9.8 trillion in assets under custody. Such an attitude led State Street to create a MPLS network for carrying converged voice, data and video simultaneously over two carrier networks.

http://www.networkworld.com/allstar/2005/112105-financial.html?net&story=112105-financial

Microsoft to open Office document format

Microsoft Monday said it will offer its Word, Excel and PowerPoint document formats as open standards, a move that could spark a war with technology rivals over standard document formats.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/112105-microsoft-office.html?net&story=112105-microsoft-office

Hot Seat Video: DataPower on SOAs

Jim Ricotta, president and CEO of DataPower, joins John Gallant to talk about service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, XML and how his company, which was recently acquired by IBM, can help deal with this application-level data on the network.

http://www.networkworld.com/video/110705hs-datapower.html?net&story=110705hs-datapower

Today on Layer 8, where we remind you to take the giblets out of the turkey before it hits the oven:

The RIAA’s not-really-surprising response to the Sony rootkit fiasco; how to make a data disaster pay; John Cleese’s new Webinar on online backup; and what’s up with Symantec’s Norton Internet Security 2005?; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.

http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/layer8/?net&story=layer8

NOTE: NetFlash is taking the rest of the week off for turkey and stuffing. Have a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving holiday, and we’ll see you back here on Monday.