[ale] Breaking News: A worm shut down computers runing Windows 2000, news at 11.... :-)

[smw at malamber.org (Scott Warfield)]

The seriousness of the MSRPC PnP vulnerability is inescapable.
Especially since a full exploit w/ shell code is publicly available...
my wife could root a box now.

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Scott Warfield
Internet Security Systems
X-Force Developer

swarfield at iss.net
PGP Key: 0x70AB7F3D
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On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 18:23 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Currently in red at the top of CCN.com:
> 
>   BREAKING NEWS
>   A worm shut down computers running Windows 2000 software 
>   across the United States. More soon.
> 
> 
> Is that *really* "breaking news" even in 2005?
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> 
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