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Meka][Meka
Unstopable
Posts: 700

Network administrators who have failed to patch their systems against the Microsoft Windows Internet Naming Service vulnerability are now at much greater risk of attack.
The SANS Internet Storm Center warned Wednesday that it has detected a steep rise in probes directed at network ports handling Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) services over the past several days. SANS believes this is a sign that the vulnerability is being exploited by malicious hackers.
"If you have not patched your WINS servers in your respective companies or campuses, beware. Patching these systems is now overdue," said SANS.
According to statistics gathered by the Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center, the increase in activity began on Thursday but became much greater on Saturday.
WINS, which is part of several Microsoft server products including NT 4.0 Server, Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003, is used to identify the Internet Protocol addresses of specific computers on a network.
The flaw was first made public in November by security software maker Immunity. Microsoft then acknowledged that the WINS flaw could allow remote attacks to be launched against systems.
C0D3Z3R0
Pro
Posts: 166

lol, shows how stupid and lazy some admins are...
vickmaker
Ametuar
Posts: 127

its the most popular exploit atm so their must be lots of crap admins :wink:
//v
Corayzon
Regular
Posts: 67

lol guys,
the only dumbass's here are microsoft!
Meka][Meka
Unstopable
Posts: 700

Quoted from Corayzon
lol guys,
the only dumbass's here are microsoft!

nah ms own 
C0D3Z3R0
Pro
Posts: 166

it's funny, i ran windows server 2003 for about 5 months and never got a virus, worm, or trojan once on it, if i can stop viruses, hackers etc getting on my server then so should system admins be able to stop it, so they are lazy, my windows server wasn't patched against anything...
MethodZ
n00b
Posts: 12

yes lazy lazy lazy..... lol... and code, i know exactly where your coming from.... cause my server didnt have a-v or firewalls... just fresh install of "xp pro" for like 6 months it was great running smooth, then i slapped a Anti-Virus.. and i got loaded with them... weird how the corp offices work these days aint it? :(