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By Applelinks Senior Editor John H. Farr
It's on the front page of the Washington Post. Microsoft, the government, and a host of experts are warning of a the possibility of a new Blaster worm-like attack, perhaps "within several hours." What's more, it's now clear that all that's lacking for such an attack to devastate millions of computers worldwide is the intent of a malicious hacker to do so.
The following quotations are relevant:
"We got really lucky that Blaster didn't try to delete files or render computers otherwise unusable," said Vimal Solanki, senior product marketing manager for Santa Clara, Calif., anti-virus software designer Network Associates. "It's really up to your imagination what hackers could do with this flaw."The problems reside in services deeply woven into the fabric of the Windows operating system that allow users to communicate across Microsoft networks. Microsoft labeled both flaws "critical," meaning they could be easily exploited by an Internet worm, a program that spreads rapidly across the Internet without any action on the part of the user.
"It's not going to take a real genius to cobble together a new attack."
Microsoft has posted a patch, of course. The entire article is here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59894-2003Sep11.html.
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