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Major Windows Vulnerability Announcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Linda LeBlanc)
Tue Jul 22 16:12:12 2003
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:12:08 -0400
To: ed-tech@mit.edu, winpartners@mit.edu
From: Linda LeBlanc <security@MIT.EDU>
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<div align="center"><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica"><b>URGENT Windows
Vulnerability Notification<br><br>
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Because of an urgently needed security update for all Microsoft Windows
computers, MIT Information <br>
Systems is taking the unprecedented step of sending this letter to
everyone in the MIT community.<br><br>
You will need to perform the update yourself (unless you have a local
system administrator)<br>
-- the update process should take less than 10 minutes. The update
was announced July 16<br>
in Microsoft's bulletin MS03-026 and relates to the RPC part of the
Windows operating system.<br>
This update will fix a security problem that gives remote intruders the
means to break into <br>
SEVERAL THOUSAND Windows computers at MIT!<br><br>
To obtain the update and get more information about this security update
at MIT, go to:<br><br>
<div align="center"><font face="Courier New, Courier"><b><a href="http://web.mit.edu/net-security/windows.html" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/net-security/windows.html</a><br><br>
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If you would like assistance from Information Systems, please contact the
Help Desk at<br>
3-1102 or computing-help@mit.edu <br><br>
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Linda LeBlanc for security@mit.edu<br><br>
[Please respond with the case number in the subject line<br>
to security@mit.edu and not to me personally. Thank you.]<br>
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