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EEye Alerts Of Microsoft's NT 4.0 Vulnerability
SecurityProNews
Staff Writer
2005-03-12
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eEye Digital Security alerted its customers and security administrators worldwide of a vulnerability within Microsoft's NT 4.0 Operating System (OS).
Designed to fix a Windows vulnerability that eEye discovered in February 2005, Microsoft disclosed and released a patch for this vulnerability on Tuesday, March 8, 2005. However, no public announcement was made -- this patch was only disclosed and made available to those enterprises that had paid for ongoing support for the NT 4.0 OS.
"Given NT 4.0's enormous installed base, the majority of which are running critical applications, we believe enterprises should evaluate alternatives to patching as soon as possible," stated Firas Raouf, eEye's chief operating officer. "Financial services systems, medical devices and self-serve airline check-in counters are just some of the examples of the types of systems that have been vulnerable over the last few days. eEye's Blink endpoint security software already protects our existing customers and provides enterprises with a viable alternative to expensive support contracts."
With hundreds of thousands of installations around the world, NT 4.0 is a server OS for large enterprises, representing 15 to 20 percent of all Windows servers (Gartner Group, February 2005). In the absence of a Microsoft support contract for NT 4.0, enterprises should evaluate an endpoint security product that can protect against such vulnerabilities. Those organizations that have deployed Blink, eEye's award-winning endpoint security software, are already protected from this exploit and can postpone patching to regularly scheduled maintenance cycles.
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