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By Graeme Wearden
Posted on ZDNet News: Jan 5, 2005 4:00:00 PM

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.

Graeme Wearden of ZDNet UK reported from London.

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Why search for the muderer...
If someone overlooks a window lock one night, well then, they deserve to get shot by an intruder, correct?... (Read the rest)
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SANS takes 4 days to alert IT  seadog59 | 01/05/05
Idiot troll!  Confused by religion | 01/05/05
WINS on internet?  ibabadur1 | 01/05/05
apparently so happy (NT)  Monkey_MCSE | 01/05/05
non-firewalled connections  linuxoverwindows | 01/05/05
Everyone should be an expert, right?  dbrimlow | 01/05/05
In this case  PA-ITGuy | 01/05/05
A good point, but...  d2r4 | 01/05/05
read the manual...  Real World | 01/06/05
It helps to be  ibabadur1 | 01/06/05
LOL! Sorry, I Over-reacted  dbrimlow | 01/06/05
Responsibility all around.  merchant@... | 01/05/05
I agree with you 200% (NT)  Black-N-Blanc | 01/05/05
No such thing as 200% nor 110% and even 100% is  Laff | 01/05/05
Tell that to NASA  PA-ITGuy | 01/06/05
Yeah...If I'm sitting at the top of a rocket and someone  Laff | 01/06/05
Microsoft share of responsibility  misceng | 01/06/05
Administrators who use NT deserve to get hacked!  supoman | 01/05/05
My NT is gone...  nomorems | 01/05/05
Administrators who use Windows deserve to get hacked!  BurmaYank | 01/05/05
Pretty Much True  Pinkerton | 01/05/05
i do that  linuxoverwindows | 01/05/05
Ooooo!  Jeff Spicoli | 01/05/05
Hmm  Roger Ramjet | 01/06/05
Good point Roger  Jeff Spicoli | 01/06/05
admins  allenhopton@... | 01/05/05
re: admins  richdave | 01/05/05
M$ apologist  Roger Ramjet | 01/06/05
Administrators who use NT  gardoglee | 01/05/05
Bosses who make their Admins use Windows deserve to get hacked.  BurmaYank | 01/05/05
Touche`!  Roger Ramjet | 01/06/05
No they don't  John L. Ries | 01/05/05
Exactly right  rapson | 01/06/05
OK, maybe - but only Windows will always BEG to get hacked, inherently.  BurmaYank | 01/06/05
Don't know about that but...  John L. Ries | 01/06/05
Nix the question, what gives?  ngqmusic@... | 01/05/05
without the crime...  linuxoverwindows | 01/05/05
Yep.  John L. Ries | 01/05/05
But...  rapson | 01/05/05
Do unpatched servers deserve to be targets or should Microsoft take more re  tom@... | 01/05/05
Message has been deleted.  Jeff Spicoli | 01/05/05
Enlightened comments like these give me HOPE about humanity's future (NT)  Black-N-Blanc | 01/05/05
Why thank you, Blanc dude!  Jeff Spicoli | 01/05/05
So-called social darwinsm at work...  Black-N-Blanc | 01/05/05
Wrong  Jeff Spicoli | 01/05/05
RE: Wrong  php_developer | 01/05/05
Which is interesting...  rapson | 01/05/05
No  Jeff Spicoli | 01/05/05
really?  Real World | 01/06/05
Not really  rapson | 01/06/05
What is right and moral are different  Jeff Spicoli | 01/06/05
Truthfulness is...  Mack DaNife | 01/06/05
You misunderstand, mi amigo  Jeff Spicoli | 01/05/05
Ooh  rapson | 01/06/05
So Carl  Jeff Spicoli | 01/06/05
Pre-emtive war is a very dangerous concept.  Laff | 01/06/05
Jeff and Laff: You're changing the subject  rapson | 01/06/05
OK..sorry I was not following the entire thread my bad!  Laff | 01/06/05
Laff: Bingo!  rapson | 01/06/05
RE: RE: Wrong  richdave | 01/05/05
heh heh heh my morals are better than yours!!!!  Laff | 01/06/05
why not  zep11in | 01/05/05
WHY? I Can Certainly live without them!  maverick71 | 01/06/05
True Responsibility  tallen | 01/05/05
True but... (there's always a BUT)  Black-N-Blanc | 01/05/05
Enough blame to go around... Get over it.  TonyDTolleson | 01/05/05
Hackers step up search for unpatch3d servers  spfens | 01/05/05
Maliscious practices indeed  whisperycat | 01/05/05
Do you realize how wrong you are?  NonZealot | 01/05/05
Tush tush  whisperycat | 01/05/05
Oh goodie!!  NonZealot | 01/05/05
a note of point...  Monkey_MCSE | 01/05/05
Nice reply  NonZealot | 01/05/05
And that's the key  rapson | 01/06/05
Here it is!  Jeff Spicoli | 01/05/05
Dumbell  lengua99 | 01/05/05
"Deserve to get hacked?"  Crabby Guy | 01/05/05
Close  Roger Ramjet | 01/06/05
Hmmm...  catlord17 | 01/09/05
Why search for the muderer...  John Zern | 04/11/05
Hackers  duckbubbles | 01/05/05
Why Windows Or Linux  Linux_Hak | 01/05/05
Nope  Roger Ramjet | 01/06/05
morality  d2r4 | 01/05/05
Tough talk  Roger Ramjet | 01/06/05
What do white hatters feel  FilledOut | 01/07/05
Wins Vulnerablilty  pebear | 01/07/05
Hackers & Unpatched Servers  zochola@... | 01/11/05

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