“The blow-by-blow behind why eEye posted a way to break into NT
servers.”
“The eEye Security Team was in a quandary. It had been more than
one week since they’d discovered a gaping security hole in
Microsoft’s Internet Information Server — one which left nearly
every NT-based Web server on the Internet open to a complete
takeover by a malicious hacker.
“They’d sent detailed information about the bug to Microsoft
Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT), as well as to some clients with whom they had
non-disclosure agreements. Microsoft had still not released a patch
for the elementary programming mistake, and had suddenly stopped
responding to e-mail messages asking about the problem.”