[Am-info] Re: Virus-like attack hits web traffic

[Eric M. Bennett]

Erick Andrews wrote:

>Well, they clearly give "MicroTheft" credit for this one


I'm interested by the following real-world consequence of this attack:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/25/tech/main537959.shtml

The worm that crippled tens of thousands of computers worldwide and 
congested the network for countless others, even disabling Bank of 
America cash machines, took advantage of a vulnerability in some 
Microsoft Corp. software that had been discovered in July.




I wonder if BOA is using MS-SQL themselves or if some other system 
was simply broken by the flood of traffic.



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