Blaster Redux? SSL Worm Threat Rising

edited April 2004 in Science & Tech
Security experts have spotted the first signs of a Blaster-like worm circulating underground, prompting fears that major Internet disruptions could be less than a week away.
Anti-virus firms on Wednesday warned of abnormal port-scanning activity and evidence of a backdoor Trojan infecting machines through a known vulnerability in Microsoft IIS servers. And, as was the case when the Blaster virus hammered corporate networks last August, a patch for the flaw has already been issued by Microsoft.
Source: InternetNews
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