Microsoft

[verda]

Not sure if anyone already knows about this but my mum's boyfriend has just been telling me that microsoft and particularly MSN have been hacked sometime in the past week and hackers are gaining straight access to users computers through some back door type of thing that microsoft have left open on purpose. He also said that microsoft could be getting sued for this as it's illegal to leave any back door open. I'll try and find solid proof of it now and add it to thread let me know if anyone else has heard this..

[MrGazet]

never knew ? :S

[Lycan]

sounds like total rubbish to me, someone lying to look smart.

If there was a backdoor it would of beene xploited long ago or noticed by independant beta devlopers.

[GommeInc]

Not heard of this? That would get them in trouble. I am with Lycan though, it seems like rubbish...

[PlKEY-ARMY]

It was me

ph34r m3

[Qamp]

It was me

ph34r m3

You hacked microsoft well done hope your proud.

[Burns]

I would be proud.

Better than pretending to hack habbo

[Jazza]

How can you hack microsoft?

[verda]

How can you hack microsoft?

Just one week after Microsoft admitted to a major breach of its security, another hacker by the name of Dimitri claims to have gained access to several of its Web servers.
Using a known security hole in M$' Internet Information Server software - which should have been fixed with its own patch - Dimitri hacked into the servers and uploaded a text file called Hack the Planet. He claims to have been able to alter files on Microsoft's download site and, if he so wished, add Trojan horses to software. The implications are obvious.
On top of this, Dimitri claimed to have possession of an encrypted file containing administrative user names and passwords. He could decode it, he said, but wouldn't. Other interesting info: Microsoft's server domain is called Houston (and now it has a problem) and all the Web servers are set up in the same way. Tut tut.
Microsoft has admitted that at least one server has been compromised and that access was gained through a known security hole. The patch hadn't been applied to the server and now it is rushing around checking all the others. However, the Redmond giant claimed, this was not an important server and was being used only to redirect traffic to more up-to-date content.
Dimitri used the Unicode bug to get access into the systems. Microsoft's first patch for the hole was produced in August and was made public last month. The failure of M$ to install its own patches was described as "extremely sloppy" by the hacker. You're not wrong there. ®


Someone has hacked into Microsoft before so this proves it is possible

[WarezKid]

You fail.