Microsoft announces a patch for the Google attack

Of course, Microsoft doesn't call it Aurora. It's the "Google Attack."

Microsoft says it was an old version of Internet Explorer (IE 6) that was vulnerable, anyway.

The patch is due tomorrow (Thursday Jan 20, 2010, in case you're reading this next year when there's another Microsoft security problem.) According to Microsoft senior security program manager Jerry Bryant, the patch

 "addresses the vulnerability related to recent attacks against Google and a small subset of corporations. Once applied, customers are protected against the known attacks that have been widely publicized."

Yeah. Why so much publicity over an attack that may have been perpetrated by an oppressive government against civil rights advocates and a small subset of 20 to 34 corporations doing business in China? 

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