Server attacks stump Microsoft
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Microsoft released further details of a rash of attacks on Windows 2000 servers that has so far stumped the software giant's research team.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-956647.html
August 30, 2002 PSS Hacking Alert - Microsoft
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While the company wouldn't say how many machines or customers had been victims of the attacks, Miller did say that "it has been a significant number."
What is worrying about this is that MS have not been able to determine the technique being used to gain access to the computer. There is also a text file called 'gates.txt' which contains 'a list of numerical Internet addresses' (IP addresses I am assuming). MS have no idea whether this is a list of computers which have been done over, or if they are potential targets, or anything.
MS are reluctant to let the MS Security Response Centre know about this trojan/virus/worm - yet they have no idea how it gains access to a system, whether it exploits a known bug or an undiscovered one, or what the IP addresses mean. And there were a significant number of attacks.
Does anyone else smell something fishy? Or is this just standard practice from the least security-conscious corporation on earth?
