Sasser Enters Round 6 as Patch Tuesday Arrives

As it brushes itself from the Sasser worm, it said, again and again. Today is Microsofts patch Tuesday, a day once a month when Microsoft put all the security patches, its work.

James Sasser is a worm built to take advantage of loopholes in the Microsoft 20 for the April 13, the last patch Tuesday. Mujieli lsass still use the vulnerability of this, it is fixed in the patch and security bulletin MS04 - 011.

Four versions of the Sasser up from the previous week. Germany arrested a juvenile last weekend, allegedly responsible for the people, as well as some work on the Netsky virus. Microsoft forking over $ 250,000 reward from the swimming pool to thank informants. Although sasser.e variant appeared about two days after the men were arrested, the authorities said that this version of the juvenile may be released just before his arrest.

Panda found a variant of F James Sasser on Tuesday, but experts believe that the security company, not so smart hackers probably wrote this version.

Microsoft officials said there were more than 1.5 million downloads of its Sasser cleansing tools. Some security experts have warned that it should boost their spirit, in order to further the worm on April 13 of the fragility of the family, or even to some form of "super-exploitation" or blended threat volumes together with several feats.

Even for the bad guys to further abuse on April 13 patches, Microsoft is ready, preparing for the next round of patches. Its tempting to think that Microsoft remove lined up on April 13, especially given that it had been aware of the loopholes, and for more than six months. However, this is not very likely. Microsoft has been posting and e-mailing notices to encourage IT managers registered its monthly webcast on the latest round of weaknesses.