There has been much speculation about what sort of cyber attacks and other computer security threats might be introduced when hostilities were begun with Iraq. As was posted, so far there have been hundreds of web site defacements but not much else.

Everyone needs to be vigilent though and aware of the fact that there have been some MAJOR security vulnerabilities announced in the past couple weeks. These vulnerabilities affect huge numbers of machines around the world and present a prime target for malicious developers to use them as an attack vector.

There have been serious flaws found in Sendmail, Windows 2000 and the Windows Script Engine in all versions of Windows. Any one of these could be a viable attack vector for a malicious coder to use. Just like SQL Slammer, months may pass before the attack occurs, but unfortunately there will be many who probably still will not have applied the available updates or patches.