Microsoft silent over IP vulnerability claims
Microsoft has refused to comment over allegations that computers running its Windows operating system are affected by a serious vulnerability in one of the Internet's underlying technologies.
The UK's National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) published details of this denial-of-service vulnerability earlier this week that affects some routers, firewalls and voice-over-IP (VoIP) phones.
The vulnerability is in the way ICMP error messages are handled would allow hackers to reset connections between computers and stop activity, such as VoIP conversations, from working.
Cisco, Juniper and IBM have admitted that the vulnerabilities exist in their equipment, but the security researcher who claimed to have found the flaws has now claimed that Microsoft is also affected.
