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HomeSec Warns Again About Microsoft's Insecurity

Posted by michael on from the repatch-and-sin-no-more dept.

cbrandtbuffalo writes "The Department of Homeland Security has posted this advisory about an impending attack on MS systems. This RPC attack has already been seen in some localized systems, but may spread as unpatched computers are exploited. Some of the national news like CNN are running stories too."

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  1. Microsoft really did it this time.. by Tirel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is turning out to be a huge problem, we got the exploit a bit *cough*early*cough* and by simply joining a channel on IRC you get a handful of IPs, of which at least a few are exploitable. And then they wonder why there are a thousands of ddos zombie machines running windows!

    But there's another problem, a lot of people are starting to distrust microsoft and are turning off the automatic update / not getting service packs instead of switching to another operating system.

  2. windows at the office?? by chef_raekwon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    i could have sworn that 2 weeks ago, here on this very same slashdot....there was a story about HomeLand Security securing a very large purchase from Microsoft....aka 100 million, or some outrageous number like that..

    isn't this a bit irresponsible of them, now that they are declaring Windows a vulnerability?

    --
    We're like rats, in some experiment! -- George Costanza
  3. Re:How big a threat is this? by tlovie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm not sure if Windows98/se is vulnerable since microsoft's knowledge base specifically states that Windows ME is not vulnerable. The vulnerability is based on a buffer overflow of the RPC service. Does windows 95/98 even offer the RPC service?