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Windows source code used to build exploit

Posted by geeknews at 8:52 AM on February 17, 2004

Seems the hackers have been pouring over the segments of Windows code that was released and have found a vulnerability and crafted a exploit. To think what would happen if all of Windows 2000/NT code had been released. One things for sure I bet Microsoft will be looking at those segments to clean up any weak code. [The Register]

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