Program exploits Windows 2000 flaw

A Venezuelan security consultant has released a small program designed to compromise Microsoft Internet Information Service servers that haven"t had a recent security hole patched.

Monday"s public release of the program"s source code--known in security parlance as an exploit--will allow less technically knowledgeable system administrators to test for the existence of the vulnerability or allow less skillful miscreants to attack servers.

News source: CNET News.com

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