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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. News? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "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."

    Machines that are not protected are vulnerable. Well, that isn't really news is it? Sounds pretty silly to me.

  2. Re:Only one thing though... by eviltypeguy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you think the majority of users are security minded like that, then why do you think the majority of users have so many problems that could be prevented in the first place by firewalls? Sorry, but my experience has been the opposite of your fairy tale.

  3. Re:Not that big of a deal by itsnotthenetwork · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nobody deserves to get their Boxen hacked, even if they don't always use the best available defenses.
    That is like saying the rape victim is at fault "'cause she looked so sexy"

  4. Mod parent down by Ulric · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's a list of operating systems from 1997, taken out of an exploit from 1997. Linux 2.0.30? Novell 4.11? Solaris 2.5.1?