Friday, August 01, 2003

In a CNet report today, federal government says there is new evidence that an attack is being planned on computers using Microsoft's Windows. [CNET News.com]. Yep, it's another in a long series of vulnerabilities in Windows. It was handled on our network by blocking TCP and UDP ports 135, 139, and 445 for all inbound connections at the firewall. Easier I guess than trying to patch all the desktop machines. At least this time we weren't completely shut down--the last time something like this happened, there was this very knee-jerk reaction. It didn't matter that almost half the computers on our network are Macs.

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