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Security pros groan as zero-day hits Microsoft's SQL Server

 
Meanwhile, IE 7 attacks on the rise Yet another zero-day vulnerability has been identified in a popular Microsoft product, this time in its SQL Server database. The revelation comes as miscreants are stepping up attacks on a particularly nasty bug in the latest version of Internet Explorer.… (link)

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