Stuxnet Attacks Used 4 Windows Zero-Day Exploits 67
abadnog writes "The attackers behind the recent Stuxnet worm attack used four different zero-day security vulnerabilities to burrow into — and spread around — Microsoft's Windows operating system, according to a startling disclosure from Microsoft. Two of the four vulnerabilities are still unpatched. Microsoft said the attackers initially targeted the old MS08-067 vulnerability (used in the Conficker attack), a new LNK (Windows Shortcut) flaw to launch exploit code on vulnerable Windows systems and a zero-day bug in the Print Spooler Service that makes it possible for malicious code to be passed to, and then executed on, a remote machine. The malware also exploited two different elevation of privilege holes to gain complete control over the affected system."
Well, at least (Score:4, Funny)
...zero-day bug in the Print Spooler Service...
it won't affect the iPad!
Yeah, yeah, -1 Troll, -1 Flamebait, -1 Offtopic...
4 != four (Score:2, Funny)
Who else was all ready to flame about 4 being used to mean "four"?
Then I read the rest of the summary for once...
Re:4 != four (Score:2, Funny)
Re:4 != four (Score:3, Funny)
When not four, 4 is 2 B.
... or maybe ! 2 B.
Gee What a Coincidence (Score:2, Funny)
Re:old news? (Score:3, Funny)
"Hey Taco man you do realize this is recycled old news from about two month ago, don't you?"
Do you mean it's not zero-day news?