Heads-Up: The MS06-040 Exploit is in the wild…

Just a quick heads-up from the dudes at the Internet Storm Center – there is an active exploit of MS06-040 out in the wild…

See here for the diary entries.

Bleedingsnort rules are seeming to catch it.

For more information about it, visit the Security Bulletin.

Tags: MS06-040

Next Generation TCP/IP Stack in Vista/Longhorn

This was on my list to post earlier last week, but I got sidetracked by work (again).

From the Microsoft UK:

Learn more about the next generation networking features coming in Windows Vista and Windows Server code named “Longhorn”. Dubbed the “Next Generation TCP/IP” stack, these new Windows networking investments and innovations represents the most significant update [...]