The Hackers Who Broke Windows

The Hackers Who Broke Windows
Deborah Radcliff, SecurityFocus 2003-07-24

The Last Stage of Delirium, the hacking group that laid open nearly every version of the Windows operating system last week, could use a little sleep. Since going public with the RPC buffer overflow bug that some are describing as the worst Windows security hole in history, the group has been caught in a media frenzy.

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The Hackers Who Broke Windows 2003-07-25
Carstein

Bah, this is my University :) and we're very proud of them.

ps. Has Argus System gone bankrupt? If not, why the hell they haven't paid the money?...

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The Hackers Who Broke Windows 2003-07-26
mimo prohodil... (1 replies)

i've just recieved exploit code in bugtraq list...

it rebooted my win2003 server with all the patches installed... 8(...

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The Hackers Who Broke Windows 2003-07-29
Anonymous

You must have run the DoS exploit which is a different issue.

The patch covers the Buffer Overflow vulnerability......

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The Hackers Who Broke Windows 2003-07-27
Eirik

"If [they] released the code to the Windows buffer overflow attack too soon, we'd have another SQL Slammer on our hands," says Wysopal, completely ignoring the fact that the patch against Slammer was out several months before the worm. There is still time for a RPC Slammer. SQL Slammer was bad, bu...

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The Hackers Who Broke Windows 2003-07-28
LittleW0lf (1 replies)

Thanks Eirik, but to add:

"If [they] released the code to the Windows buffer overflow attack too soon, we'd have another SQL Slammer on our hands," says Wysopal, completely ignoring the fact that the patch against Slammer was out several months before the worm, or the fact that many of the worms ...

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The Hackers Who Broke Windows 2003-07-28
Anonymous (1 replies)

Um. Never. The patches MS releases do fix the problem they were supposed to fix. That same code may be responsible for causing another problem, which is a totally separate issue, but the targeted problem is fixed....

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The Hackers Who Broke Windows 2003-07-29
LittleW0lf

You obviously have access to the code and can check to see if they have, in fact, fixed the affected code. However, I don't, and when I run the exploit against a patched box, and it yields root, I have a problem whether or not they fixed the error or not. The goal isn't to fix the error, it is to ...

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The Hackers Who Broke Windows 2005-09-09
Anonymous

i have software to block any virus which would freeze my comp. sent thru e mail. my e mail address is jonhaig (at) myself.com. (dot) . [email concealed]

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