Windows 2003 and XP SP2 Vulnerable To LAND Attack 534
An anonymous reader writes "Dejan Levaja, a Serbian security engineer has discovered that nearly 8 years after the attack was first made public, WIndows 2003 and Windows XP SP2 are in fact vulnerable to the historic LAND attack." Granted, you need to have the firewall turned off for this work, but there's a whole lotta machines that don't have it turned on.
Little known fact (Score:5, Funny)
wow (Score:5, Funny)
Windows (Score:5, Funny)
Wait... (Score:5, Funny)
Arr...i be by sea (Score:1, Funny)
so what? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What kind of software dev process do MS use? (Score:5, Funny)
Windows running slow? (Score:5, Funny)
Guess we need Boston Church XP (Score:5, Funny)
Re:wow (Score:5, Funny)
The other thing Microsoft won't tell you is that if paramilitants do a home invasion, they can take your machine right out of the house and have access to all data and the entire network, for that matter.
Solution: Install complex home alarm system, man traps, CCTV, and acquire armed guards, string up razor wire and dig tunnel system deep in the jungle.
Ethic:
I told microsoft that their computers were totally unprotected from physical theft by armed gangs of paramilitants and received no response. I am now sharing this with the community.
Re:Little known fact (Score:3, Funny)
Safest OS (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft Notified (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft was informed 7 days ago (25.02.2005, GMT +1, local time), NO answer received, so I decided to share this info with security community.
Of course they didn't reply. They're under LAND attack, and your message is caught in the server. You must have sent them a proof-of-concept, so what did you expect?
Re:Little known fact (Score:5, Funny)
They had put it on an aircraft carrier and navigated it away from shore immediately, when they heard about the LAND exploit. To their delight, it stayed pretty stable in the middle of the sea.
Oh c'mon, that isn't fair. (Score:5, Funny)
Besides, like all everyone here says, it is the users own fault for not using a firewall. Having an expectation that 8 yr old attacks should be fixed is just unreasonable.
WTF, are you all on crack?
Re:Guess we need Boston Church XP (Score:3, Funny)
Retro! (Score:5, Funny)
Now that my WinXP SP2 system is susceptible to land again, it's getting me into a nostalgic mood. I think I'll go play Ms PacMan on my MAME cabinet now.
Before the M$ bashing begins wholesale... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Little known fact (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I know its been around, but...Linking to source (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Safest OS (Score:1, Funny)
Re:News? (Score:5, Funny)
Everyone has good points, and yet.... (Score:5, Funny)
Granted you have to have a computer next to a cup of coffee for this to work, but MANY PEOPLE DO!!!!!!!!!!
"LAND" war in Asia ... (Score:5, Funny)
(Yeah, off topic, I don't care.)
Re:What kind of software dev process do MS use? (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, regression tests! Those things! Bill Gates thought they were just funny-looking packing peanuts and threw them out.
Re:Little known fact (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What kind of software dev process do MS use? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:wow (Score:4, Funny)
Why wouldn't it be? (Score:1, Funny)
This was close... (Score:3, Funny)
Can you imagine what amount of fear I felt when I realized that this guy lived only 2 miles from my office...
Re:Only win ? (Score:4, Funny)
Since that site appears to be slashdotted, google turned up another one. [clifford.at].
Might as well take down both of them, right?
Re:Only win ? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Little known fact (Score:5, Funny)
There was this one time...in Hawaii...
Re:Little known fact (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Only win ? (Score:5, Funny)
*snort*. You owe me a new keyboard.
Re:News? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Little known fact (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Little known fact (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Oh c'mon, that isn't fair. (Score:2, Funny)
Some of us are on OS X. Is that close enough?
Now that's ... (Score:3, Funny)
Let's see OSS match this! A bug, almost a decade old, STILL SUPPORTED!