__/ [ Larry Qualig ] on Saturday 03 June 2006 06:42 \__
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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Windows zombie attacks now directed at the government.
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>> Hacker attack shuts down Swedish Web site
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>> | The police Web site was closed late Thursday after a so-called denial
>> | of service attack, in which hackers overload a single network by
>> | directing massive traffic to the site, police spokesman Lars Lindahl
>> | said.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/06/02/sweden.hacker.ap/index.html?section=cnn_tech
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>> The article neglects to mention that Windows flaws made this possible.
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>> Windows: making the Internet a scary place
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>>From netcraft.com....
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> 1. www.polisen.se May 2001 Rikspolisstyrelsen Solaris 9/10
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> Looks like the Swedish police is running Solaris.
You misunderstood this. What do you think facilitated such large-scale
attacks on the Solaris servers? Windows machines wordwide were being
compromised (people as young as 15 are able to do this) and then used for
extortion, revenge, and vandalism. As Bruce Schneier argued yesterday,
Microsoft should/could be held liable.
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71032-1.html?tw=wn_story_page_next1
There would be nothing more pleasing than a class action claiming damages and
losses caused by Windows holes that lead to SPAM (80% of the overall
figure), DDOS attacks (in their entirety), among other connectivity-reliant
ailments.
As Vista offers no truly improved security and hacks /du jour/ are so mundane
in existing versions, expect litigious actions against Microsoft to follow.
Botnets are on the rise and the world is not prepared to cope with them as
bandwidth capacity is increased by the day.
Roy
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