Re: 500,000 Windows web servers hosed

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> wrote:

> Brian Krebs of the Washington Post:
>
>       Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked
>
> > http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/04/hundreds_of_thousands_
> of_micro_1.html 
> Further commentary:
> >
>       500 Thousand MS Web Servers Hacked
>       http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/25/1358234

Looks like DHS got caught up in this, too:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/25/mass_web_attack_grows/

Additionally:

http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/Alerts/3070.aspx
http://hackademix.net/2008/04/23/united-nations-i-hate-to-say-i-told-you-so
/
http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2008/04/united-nations-serving-malware.html

- - ferg 



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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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