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Daily Report Thursday, November 2, 2006
Daily Highlights
The News & Observer reports that all 81 emergency sirens within a 10−mile radius of North Carolina's Shearon Harris nuclear plant were inoperable Monday morning, October 30, and again Tuesday morning, October 31. (See item 1)
CNN reports a Lufthansa plane headed to Frankfurt, Germany, with more than 300 people onboard bumped an empty Continental Airlines Boeing 757 on Tuesday, October 31, at NewarkLiberty International Airport. (See item 14)
Reuters reports an explosive device blew out a thick, plate−glass window Tuesday evening, October 31, at the Silicon Valley, California, headquarters of PayPal, the online payments unit of eBay Inc. (See item 41)
Information Technology and Telecommunications Sector
34. November 01, eWeek — Microsoft confirms critical Visual Studio zero−day. An "extremely critical" vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 could put users at risk of remote code execution attacks, the company confirmed Wednesday, November 1. The software maker issued a security advisory with pre−patch workarounds and warned that the flaw is already
being used in zero−day attacks.
Microsoft Security Advisory: