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Everything old is new again: "WinNuke is an example of a Nuke remote denial-of-service attack (DoS) that affected the Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows NT
by cesarb 7y ago
Everything old is new again: "WinNuke is an example of a Nuke remote denial-of-service attack (DoS) that affected the Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows NT and Microsoft Windows 3.1x computer operating systems. The exploit sent a string of out-of-band data (OOB data) to the target computer on TCP port 139 (NetBIOS), [...]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke
- BubRoss 7y agoThat's how I would free up my friend's phone lines when I wanted to call them.
- caf 7y agoThat's what I was thinking when I read "Four memory corruption vulnerabilities stemming from erroneous handling of TCP’s Urgent Pointer field" - the hardline on your desk is ringing, and the caller ID says 1996.
- dundercoder 7y agoWe used to win nuke the computer labs in high school after playing the first 15 seconds of blur song2. It got to the point where just playing the song would cause Ethernet dongles across the room to get ripped right out of laptops. Ahh the old days.