IP: After 'NSA' Scare, Here's A Real Windows Back Door

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

One wonders why, goven a lot of folks installed W2k (of course to 
experiment, WHY MS DID NOT TELL US IF THEY KNEW IN APRIL!!!  djf

> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/19990910/tc/19990910040.html
>
> After 'NSA' Scare, Here's
> A Real Windows Back Door
> By DAVID RAIKOW
> ZD Network News
>
> Amid all the hype about the supposed "NSA Back Door" in Windows NT, a real and
> very dangerous security breach in some builds of Windows 2000 Beta 3 has gone
> almost unnoticed.
>
> In an e-mail circulated Monday, David Litchfield of security consultancy Arca
> Systems Inc. (www.arca.com) described a simple technique that would give an
> attacker full access to a susceptible machine.
>
> Microsoft Corp. acknowledges it was aware of the breach within days 
> of shipping
> Windows 2000 Beta 3 in April. The breach will be disabled in its Release
> Candidate 2 build, which Microsoft could release next week.
>
> <snip>