June 2007
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
14h 20m
English
“I couldn’t imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah.”
—George W. Bush, White House Menorah lighting ceremony, Washington, DC, December 10, 2001
Although UNIX systems might dominate in the server room, there are more installations of the Microsoft Windows operating system worldwide, which make it an equally coveted attack target. Vulnerabilities affecting the Windows desktop are frequently leveraged in the creation of the many bot nets in existence today. Consider the Slammer worm,[1] which exploits a buffer overflow in Microsoft SQL Server, as a demonstration of the power of a network enabled Windows vulnerability. The vulnerability was addressed in ...