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Another Microsoft product that shouldn't be trusted

An article at Wired.com tells an interesting tale. Excerpts below.

Mulder said the firm's HR team was using Microsoft's FrontPage Web publishing software to post job listings, and the program embedded "unwanted code, creating that loophole."

What loophole is that, you ask? Oh, just the administrative password protecting internal documents, including customer databases owned by two of the company's biggest clients, Porsche and American Standard.

Carmichael Lynch spokeswoman Sara Mulder said the company has no evidence that unauthorized visitors took advantage of the security lapse. Yeah... and these guys clearly know what they are talking about when it comes to security since the loophole may have existed undetected for more than six months.

Hrm... Microsoft software and security breaches.... where have I heard that before?