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Friday, March 14, 2003
CERT Reports Rise In Attacks On Weak Admin Passwords - Techweb News
The CERT Coordination Center has noticed an uptick in the number of Windows 2000 and Windows XP PCs compromised by attacks on weak administrator passwords, the federally funded security center said in an advisory Tuesday. The boost in attacks -- coming via tools such as W32/Deloder, GT-bot, sdbot, and W32/Slackor -- take advantage of non-existent or especially-weak administrator passwords to gain control of the computer, delete files, or use the machine to launch further attacks on other networks.
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