Microsoft Launch: Technical Webcast - Windows Server 2003
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Microsoft Launch: Technical Webcast - Windows Server 2003, Visual Studio .NET 2003 and SQL Server 64-bit
Date
29-Apr-2003 All Day
Venue
Online
Description
To tie in with the worldwide launch of Windows Server 2003, Visual Studio .NET 2003 and SQL Server 64-bit, we’re delighted to offer you a range of separately bookable, “how to” technical web-casts giving you the low down on these exciting new products. There’s also the opportunity at the end of each of the sessions to participate in an on-line live chat with the presenters and get your questions answered.
These technical ‘How-to’ sessions for IT Professionals will detail how to implement Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and detail the great features and functions that make up this product. Along with our partners, we will go into best practices and provide guidance successfully on deploying Windows Server 2003 in your organisation.
"I released (the code) to enlighten the public and to promote system security for administrators unfamiliar with these exploits," said Rafael Nunez, information security consultant for Scientech de Venezuela and a former hacker who used the handle "RaFa."
The release of the code on two security lists--BugTraq and VulnWatch--is the latest twist in the story of the Windows 2000 flaw that Microsoft announced a week ago.
The flaw, which Microsoft said could be exploited through the World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) component of Internet Information Service (IIS) 5.0, allows an attacker to take control of the server. The flaw was discovered March 12 by the U.S. military after a public Web server was compromised by the vulnerability.
Microsoft declined to comment on the issue, except to say that customers should patch their systems. Nunez also stressed that system administrators need to patch their systems before a virus writer uses the vulnerability as a vector for a computer worm.
"This exploit is very serious," Nunez said. "Any unpatched system can allow a remote intruder to obtain full administrator privileges. This exploit can be used by some malicious programmers to write worms that can automate Web site defacements and other malevolent operations."
Nunez said that he got the code from other hackers on the Internet and cleaned it up before sending it to the two security lists to be published.