Security Watch | Matt Hines » Windows Home Server hits the streets and a Macrovision Vulnerability

November 06, 2007 | Comments: (0)

Windows Home Server hits the streets and a Macrovision Vulnerability

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Okay, I was just thinking about recommending the Windows Home Server (WHS) to some of my very small SMB clients, especially since it actually seems to solve some of their very specific problems, namely remote access to files via the web, automated backups of network machines, and monitoring of other systems on the network. All with no muss and no fuss.

If this is all true, and it all works the way it's planned, then it just might make my recommendations easier when it comes to having a simple SMB solution that I can recommend to my micro SMBs (MSMBs?). On the other hand, if it doesn't then I'll hear about it for years to come. And what's up with requiring that the user have an existing firewall? Why not connect the SMB Internet connection right into the WHS, making it a firewall and direct hub for communications? I'm guessing, conservatively, that a least 10 percent of all newly deployed WHS machines will be open to the Internet. I wonder how fast those will be p0wned once connected to the Web?

Macrovision Vulnerability

Seems that Microsoft is aware of some limited attacks on this vulnerability. This effects the Macrovision secdrv.sys driver on supported editions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. Check it out to see if you could be potentially open to attack.

Posted by Victor R. Garza on November 6, 2007 08:43 AM

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