Dana Epp's ramblings at the Sanctuary: Thoughts on DoS of Windowsupdate.com


« New Fingerprint Biometric Attack \| Main \| C# Compiler working on OSX » August 15, 2003 Thoughts on DoS of Windowsupdate.com You know I have been thinking. Apparently the developer(s) of the MSBlast (LuvSAN) worm have hooked in an attack to nail windowsupdate.com on Saturday August 16th, 2003. I checked Microsoft's DNS records, and this does very little but forward to windowsupdate.microsoft.com. If anyone at Microsoft is listening, why don't you reset windowsupdate.com to point to 127.0.0.1 and update your zones? Chances are, it will propagate to all the root servers in time to stop the DoS. And with any luck, will do little but have the worm attack itself :) Posted by SilverStr at August 15, 2003 05:32 AM		My 5 Favorite Books Writing Secure Code Secure Programming Cookbook Security Engineering Secure Coding Principles & Practice Inside the Security Mind My 5 Favorite Papers Smashing the Stack Penetration Studies Covert Channel Analysis of Trusted Systems DoD Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria NSA Security Recommendation Guides Archives December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 March 2003 February 2003 January 2003 December 2002 November 2002 October 2002 September 2002 August 2002 July 2002 GeoURL

August 15, 2003

Thoughts on DoS of Windowsupdate.com