Public attack code aimed at ASP.net servers works, says Symantec
Researchers at Symantec yesterday confirmed that working attack code published Jan. 6 can cripple Web servers running Microsoft's ASP .Net.
The proof-of-concept exploit was published last Friday on GitHub, a site that hosts software projects, and has been used in the past by hackers to distribute their work.
Other security experts were not surprised that attack code appeared within days of Microsoft rushing out a patch for a denial-of-service vulnerability in its software. "No, not surprising at all," Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Security, said in an interview Tuesday. "There was enough interest [in the researchers' original presentation] that we should have expected exploit code soon."
