Another Security Bug For Microsoft?
News The latest glitch is in Window's DCOM code -- the same component of Windows targeted by the Blaster and Nachi worms in August -- but researchers are at this stage reluctant to call the flaw a full-blown exploitable vulnerability.
[October 15, 2003, 10:00]
Networks Must Counter Triple Threat
News Blaster takes advantage of a DCOM RPC vulnerability in newer Microsoft Windows operating systems. When it finds one, it attempts to exploit the DCOM RPC buffer overflow, create a remote root shell on TCP port 4444, then use FTP to download a file...
[August 21, 2003, 12:40]
High Performance Network Security
White Papers Unlike traditional devices like firewalls which examine packet headers alone, an IPS examines the entire packet - called deep packet inspection - and is capable of detecting and blocking application level attacks such as the Blaster worm that...
[February 8, 2008, 0:16]
