IE bugs keep coming

Microsoft issued a patch yesterday for a critical vulnerability in most versions of Windows. It gives attackers remote control of a user`s machine though Internet Explorer (IE), reports The Register.

The bug is a buffer overflow in an HTML conversion library used by a number of Windows programs, including IE, and by extension Outlook and Outlook Express. To exploit it, an attacker tricks a victim into visiting a specially-crafted malicious Web page, or - a more likely approach - sends an Outlook user an HTML-formatted e-mail with the attack code embedded within.

PR flacks eager to win the public over to the benefits of mass RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chip proliferation have managed to leave their own confidential plans unprotected on the Web, reports The Register.

An outfit called Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering used the MIT Auto-ID Centre Web site for its publicising efforts. The Register comments that "the irony of data leakage by a group dedicated to allaying the privacy concerns of people whose every possession may soon be broadcasting data, is just too tempting to be ignored".

Rambus hasn`t quite given up on the PC main memory market, reports Extreme Tech. The DRAM designer hopes to add another chapter to its story, which began as a niche DRAM house that made it as a main memory powerhouse and Wall Street darling, followed by a disastrous legal rampage that alienated several of its former customers and licensees, reports the site.

Now, Rambus hopes to bring its "Yellowstone" next-generation DRAM technology back into the PC fold, in part through a formal branding of the technology as "XDR DRAM", or XDRAM.