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[News] [Rival] Windows Still Vulnerable, No Patches Available

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Windows Still Vulnerable, No Patches Available
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:11:56 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Hackers update malware tool kit with zero-day attack code

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| A new version of the IcePack hacker tool kit has been released and for the 
| first time it includes attack code designed to exploit an unpatched, or 
| zero-day, Microsoft vulnerability.  
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=195653108&rid=-50

More Windows zombies?

Rogue Nodes Turn Tor Anonymizer Into Eavesdropper's Paradise

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/09/embassy_hacks


Related:

Microsoft is the world's biggest cause of zombie remailers

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| In China, it would take about one and one-half years wages (for the
| average Chinese) to buy a legitimate copy of Windows Vista. If you
| could find it here.
|
| Microsoft is the biggest cause of zombie remailers in the world,
| because they make noises, but do not do anything to address the
| real digital inequities in the world.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38202


Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net

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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/

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