[Info-vax] 2010 date issues

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In article <981f2b6d-9441-4a80-ab74-d3e6af99f643 at r24g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, JHJR <daniel.horgan at ssaglobal.com> writes:
>All,
>
>Just a heads up. I haven't seen anything here on this issue yet:
>
>--2010 Date Recognition Problems
>
>(January 5, 2010)
>
>German payment cards are not the only technology to be hit with
>problems recognizing dates in the new year. (See story below.)
>Smartphone users running Windows Mobile are getting text messages
>dated 2016.  Symantec's Endpoint Protection manager is labeling

Leave it to Micro$haft to redefine centuries of time-telling.


>signatures dated in the new year as being out-of-date; until the
>problem is addressed in an update, new malware signatures will be
>dated 12/31/2009 with increased revision numbers.  Other vendors
>affected include Cisco, SpamAssassin.

...but the end of the world is 2012... :)


>ISC:
>
>http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7870
>
>http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7873
>
>http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/The-year-2010-is-causing-IT-problems-895628.html
>
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/05/symantec_y2k10_bug/
>
>Regards,
>Dan

Looks like those Y2K issues weren't well tested.

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