Archive for October 6th, 2005

Is this the first shot of Halo 3?

October 6, 2005

Pre-X05 excitement reaches melting point… Bungie promises ‘awesome’ announcement

A screenshot that purports to be the first ever image of Halo 3 is today causing rampant speculation as to whether Microsoft intends to unveil the game this week.
Microsoft’s annual Xbox press extravaganza X05 kicks off this week in Amsterdam, where it has been rumoured that Halo’s [...]

Tags: announcement, Bungie, Gaming, Halo, Microsoft, PlayStation, Xbox
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Digital plague hits online game World of Warcraft

October 6, 2005

A digital virus spread by terrorists left bodies on the streets and cities quarantined by the government.

Fortunately, the epidemic was not real, but the aftermath of an
inadvertent digital plague caused by a simple change to the massively
multiplayer online roleplaying game, World of Warcraft.

The change? Giving a monster the ability to curse in-game avatars with
a [...]

Tags: Bugs, Security
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Use the Network Service Account to Access a Remote SQL Server

October 6, 2005

By default, Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 runs ASP.NET applications in application pools that use the NT AUTHORITY\Network Service account identity. This account is a least privileged machine account with limited permissions. An application that runs using this account has restricted access to the event log, registry, and file [...]

Tags: ASP.NET, IIS, Microsoft, Security
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