“The US government’s cybersecurity arm warned that the Internet could come under attack from a new virus similar to last month’s damaging Blaster worm in the wake of a new Windows flaw revealed by Microsoft,” AFP reports. “In an advisory, the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity division warned of a ‘potential for (a) significant impact on Internet operations’ as a result of the vulnerability disclosed by the software maker.”
“The Department of Homeland Security said it ‘believes that exploits are being developed’ and could spread rapidly because the overwhelming majority of personal computers use the Windows operating system. ‘DHS is concerned that a properly written exploit could rapidly spread on the Internet as a worm or virus in a fashion similar to the Blaster Worm,’ the advisory said. The tech security firm Symantec said that because the new flaw is similar to the one uncovered in July, it believes that active exploitation and creation of Internet worms targeting this vulnerability is imminent.’ The flaw affects Windows NT version 4.0, Windows 2000 (news – web sites), Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.” AFP reports.
Full article here.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
U.S. Department of Homeland Security awards enterprise agreement to Microsoft – July 15, 2003
U.S. Department of Homeland Security says Windows vulnerable to attack – August 01, 2003
CCIA wants U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security to reconsider buying ‘insecure Microsoft software‘ – August 29, 2003
It’s like saying the sun is going to rise every morning….duh
Sheesh!
It never ends does it?
One is left wondering how long it takes the average Joe to wake up and realize they don’t have to suffer with such mediocrity if they would only stop listening to the “Wintel Apologist Guild” and buy a REAL computer!
And some of these lunatics had the nerve to label the Macintosh “MacinToy” ?
Heh….A nickname like “Win….DOH!s” actually fits the reality.
R.V.
indeed: how long? Must be seriously dumb to keep the endless loop of
attacked-by-virus- clean-up-patch-checkup-attacked-by-virus-…
Where do Windohs users find the time to do ANYTHING on their virus&worms;-traps?
Looks like 1984 ads is truly depicting today’s reality. I hope Apple will finally realize the ad and send that big hammer to break the allucination.
How much and how long Windows users could be sodomized this way and apparently ask for more?
Do they enjoy that? Could it be that Micro & Soft for some people does instead fell Big & Hard? Does Micros**t use a special kind of lubricant?
PS
No offense to any of the three genders
Thank goodness Homeland Security is based on Windows so they are in the know on these virus threats!
Having been lurking around this site for many months now, and being a Mac user (had a 128k Mac) for a long time, the big question comes to mind as to when the code for head crashes on hard drives will surface. That will sit-up everyone and everyone will take notice when servers lose accounts and the world governements lose records. THAT is the ultimate worm. Now you are talking financial panic beyond measure. What I am doing is taking a big leap of faith and assuming that it can be done. Good Heaven!! That would be horrific. If it got into operations of electric utilities, the recent blackout on the East coast would seen child’s play. I really wonder if the authors of these vriuses and worms know where this is headed.
I think it is truly amazing how many people don’t install these patches, and then get the worm. That would explain why they bought a PC in the first place though…
dukemeiser – If only it were as easy as installing a patch. Unfortunately, sometimes M$ patches don’t work…
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,39020381,39116180,00.htm
…and sometimes the patches don’t work for your specific Service Pack. For example, the patch that M$ released for the Blaster worm only worked for SP3 and SP4 on Windows 2000 – yet most users of Windows 2000 were still on SP2 because the APPLICATIONS they use don’t support SP3 or SP4.
And that leads to the biggest problem that MicroPatch has with its band-aid security technique: THE APPLICATIONS! Seems like a no brainer that really the only reason to have an operating system is to run applications, but M$ seems to have forgotten this since their patches tend to cause problems with quite a good number of large enterprise-type applications – including some of their own.
Oh yeah, if you upgrade to SP4, you have to re-install some of the patches since SP4 uninstalls them. Brilliant.
Uncle Rat – “when the code for head crashes on hard drives will surface”.
What? Do you have any idea what you’re talking about? [That’s a rhetorical question; the answer is obvious.] A head crash is a physical hardware problem, like what happens when your stupid cat knocks a drive off your desk. Now, when they figure out how to manipulate your cat’s brainwaves via BlueTooth emissions and brainwash it to trash your desk, then I’ll be concerned. ‘Til then, I’ll just keep on using Macs…
I think Apple’s 1984 commercial is extremely valid today. We still have lemmings (or drones) and MS has taken the place of IBM.
Just the narration has to be changed as well as the picture of OS X in place of a Mac.
The narrator could say, “In the computing world, 1984 has come to fruition…OS X from Apple breaks free of the shackles of windows…Secure, reliable, and user friendly…”
Apple just needs two items before it can be on the offensive. Enterprise software and an alternative to office.
AL,
the alternative is already in the cooking…
And BTW, since PDF is getting more and more recognition as a standard why using Word and then generate a PDF to distribute when you can easily use already any word processing tool in OS X. Every OS X application can generate a PDF file.
In my organization we now send PDF by default. It is getting customary to reply to .doc senders: “Please send again using non proprietary format like PDF”
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