Posted on November 26th, 2008 by admin
M0re than a month after releasing an emergency patch for the MS08-067 RPC vulnerability , Microsoft on Tuesday warned that it is seeing increased levels of attack activity against the flaw. The company said that there is a new worm, being called Win32/Conficker.A , which is exploiting the RPC flaw and spreading in both enterprises and in home user environments. Conficker opens a random TCP port between 1024 and 10000 and then starts exploiting the MS08-067 vulnerability on other PCs on the network.
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Posted on October 27th, 2008 by admin
If you haven’t pached your Microsoft systems, YOU BETTER!!!
There are reports emerging Friday morning of a new Trojan exploiting the MS08-067 RPC vulnerability in Windows that Microsoft patched with an emergency fix yesterday. Known as Gimmiv.A, the Trojan propagates automatically through networks, and also installs a number of small programs on compromised machines. But its [...]
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Posted on September 23rd, 2008 by admin
“Pentagon e-mail system broken into”
According to BBC News, a hacker has managed to penetrate one of the e-mail systems in the Pentagon. Because of that, up to 1,500 accounts were taken off-line as a precaution.
US Secretary of defense Robert Gates, speaking at a news briefing, said that the penetrated system was an unclassified one that [...]
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