Saturday, August 02, 2003|
Attack bot exploits Windows flaw. Online vandals are reportedly using a program to compromise Windows servers and remotely control them through Internet relay chat (IRC) networks. [CNET News.com] 10:35:32 PM 
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New Worm Spreading Via E-Mail. Security researchers are continuing to analyze a new worm that began spreading rapidly through e-mail systems worldwide earlier today. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis] This showed up on the teknoids list Friday morning. We were ahead of the curve on this. Interesting... 2:18:43 PM
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CERT warns of attacks, new holes in Windows. In the past two days, CERT has received reports of thousands of systems compromised using variations of the malicious code, which is known as DCOM RPC. [Computerworld News] 2:15:39 PM
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NCCUSL pulls support for controversial UCITA law. Although the software licensing measure isn't dead, proponents say it's now in a period of "repose" given vocal opposition to it in recent years. [Computerworld News]
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Update: Microsoft.com hit by DOS attack. The site was unavailable for about an hour following a denial-of-service attack. [Computerworld News] 2:09:34 PM
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False Alarm, Says Microsoft. Redmond said a DoS attack, not a cracker exploit of a much-publicized Windows vulnerability, was behind anearly two-hour outage of Microsoft.com properties. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley] 2:07:40 PM
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