OT: Here we go again ...

[Michael Hipp]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030916/D7TJP93G0.html

By TED BRIDIS

WASHINGTON (AP) - Security researchers on Tuesday detected hackers 
distributing software to break into computers using flaws announced last 
week in some versions of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows operating system.

The threat from this new vulnerability - which already has drawn stern 
warnings from the Homeland Security Department - is remarkably similar 
to one that allowed the Blaster virus to infect hundreds of thousands of 
computers last month.

...

Researchers from iDefense Inc. of Reston, Va., who found the new attack 
software being distributed from a Chinese Web site, said it was already 
being used to break into vulnerable computers and implant eavesdropping 
programs. They said they expect widespread attacks similar to the 
Blaster infection within days.

...

Microsoft confirmed it was studying the new attack tool.