ISS’s security products were last week attacked by the Witty worm but the company is refusing to provide patches to customers who do not have a valid maintenance contract. Security vendor ISS has been slammed for only providing security patches to customers who have purchased a maintenance agreement from the company. Last week, this left about 12,000 computers vulnerable to the Witty worm, which has proved one of the most destructive worms to be released for a number of years. The Witty worm started to spread less than two days after a flaw in Internet Security Systems (ISS) RealSecure and BlackIce products was disclosed. The worm is unusual in that it is one of the first worms in recent years to have a physically destructive payload — it was designed to regularly write small amounts of data to random places on an infected machine’s hard drive, which causes loss of data and eventually crashes the computer. Full Story
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