'Shocking Flaw' Leaves Microsoft Looking Like a Turkey
Patrick Gray writes in The Sydney Morning Herald:
Microsoft engineers worked frantically over the US Thanksgiving holiday to fix a design flaw in Windows that has exposed millions of computers to hijacking by computer criminals.More here.
By exploiting the design flaw a lone miscreant could take control of vast numbers of home or office PCs around the world in a single attack. They could read data, steal passwords and monitor internet use or use them to distribute spam or viruses.
The bug was demonstrated at the Kiwicon hacker conference in New Zealand last week by an ethical hacker, Beau Butler.
While testing the flaw, Mr Butler found more than 160,000 computers in NZ were vulnerable. Computers in the US are not vulnerable to the flaw, but many countries are potentially wide open.
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posted by Fergie @ 11/25/2007 10:16:00 PM
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