The latest flaw discovered in IIS has highlighted the need for a new generation of firewall for port 80, which has to look at the content going through and actively filter and monitor it. Simply relying on the old IP/port number combination is no longer good enough.
There has been another security bug found in IIS - a nasty one. A buffer overrun allows you to execute your own code on the server, which can include such delicious things as running a remote comma...
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