[pchelpers] News:Worm outbreak feared after port scanning spike

Worm outbreak feared after port scanning spike
June 24 2005
by Joris Evers
Sniffing increases...
A surge in scanning on a port associated with a Windows flaw patched 
last week suggests that a mass worm attack may be imminent, experts said.

A rise in activity on TCP Port 445 could be a sign that hackers are 
trying to exploit a flaw in Server Message Block, Gartner analyst John 
Pescatore said on Thursday.

"Increased scanning does not always mean an attack will happen but it 
greatly increases the odds that one will," Pescatore said. "I don't 
think this has a high probability of a worm but if people get lax about 
patching the odds of worms go way, way up."

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