Tech Talk Guests
- Paul Renard, Dean, School of Information Systems, Stratford University
- Dr. Adil Rajput, Program Director, Stratford School of Graduate Studies
- Dr. George C. Blankenship. Jr., Adjunct Faculty, Stratford University
MSBlast (LoveSans) Worm Attacks Microsoft
- Worm exploited buffer overflow vulnerability in Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
- RPC vulnerability is found Windows2003, WindowsXP, Windows2000, WindowsNT
- Worm forced host machine to reboot every 100 seconds and launched a Distributed Denial of Service Attach on Microsoft’s Update Website
- Once installed in a new host, the program scans the Internet for other vulnerable hosts using Port 135
- For complete instructions for dealing with this virus, email msblast@stratford.edu to received an autoresponse.