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Windows 2003 and XP SP2 Vulnerable To LAND Attack

Posted by Hemos on from the one-if-by-sea-two-if-by-LAND dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Dejan Levaja, a Serbian security engineer has discovered that nearly 8 years after the attack was first made public, WIndows 2003 and Windows XP SP2 are in fact vulnerable to the historic LAND attack." Granted, you need to have the firewall turned off for this work, but there's a whole lotta machines that don't have it turned on.

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  1. And you're surprised becuase by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And everybody is surprised by this because...?

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  2. Really? You don't say. by Squishy+Eyeball+Jeff · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In other news, most homes are vulnerable to the classic BREAKIN attack if doors are left unlocked.

    Film at 11.

  3. The sky is falling, the sky is falling by hkb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This incident is just another example which demonstrates the importance that KDE, Mozilla & Mozilla Firefox's open source culture places on security. Hasn't anyone at Mozilla and KDE ever heard about regression testing?

    This incident is just another example which demonstrates the importance (or more accurately, the lack thereof) that Linux's open source culture places on security. Hasn't anyone at Linux ever heard about regression testing?

    Open source has consistantly (sic) demonstrated that, regardless of what their press releases say, security is NOT one of their priorities. People need to start waking up and realizing this before they entrust their critical infrastructure to open source products.

    See how stupid your comment is? No? Didn't think so.

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