New Hack Attacks on the Way!!!!!!!!!

It seems that our hacker troubles are not over yet....


AND ITS BEING DISTRIBUTED BY THE CHINESE?????????????
Hackers Pass Out New Software For Attacks

By Ted Bridis, AP

7:59 PM EST Tues., Sept. 16, 2003




Security researchers on Tuesday detected hackers distributing software to break into computers using flaws announced last week in some versions of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system.
The threat from this new vulnerability - which already has drawn stern warnings from the Homeland Security Department - is remarkably similar to one that allowed the Blaster virus to infect hundreds of thousands of computers last month.

The discovery gives fresh impetus for tens of millions of Windows users - inside corporations and in their homes - to immediately apply a free repairing patch from Microsoft. Homeland Security officials have warned that attacks could result in a "significant impact" on the operation of the Internet.

Researchers from iDefense Inc. of Reston, Va., who found the new attack software being distributed from a Chinese Web site, said it was already being used to break into vulnerable computers and implant eavesdropping programs. They said they expect widespread attacks similar to the Blaster infection within days.

www.channelweb.com...

Oh for fu*k's sake!!
With that, and the newest "big virus" going around:
www.informationweek.com...
I'm about ready to give every damned skriptkiddie a few smacks to the head.

Patch your OS.
Don't open attachments in emails unless you know exactly what they are.
Microsoft isn't going to send you patches via email.
Run a firewall.
Run virus software.

It's not hard, people! C'mon!!


-B.

[Edited on 19-9-2003 by Banshee]