In Section 6, we covered a few areas of security concern for Unix based systems. The security issues seem to be similar for other widely used operating systems. In this section we address some security problems in the Microsoft Windows NT operating system.
Denial of service attacks have been discovered. Microsoft has provided security patches for most of these problems. Microsoft distributes software updates, known as Service Packs. Currently, SP3 fixes more than thirty known security related problems and should be applied to any Windows NT workstation or server which is attached to the Internet. In addition, Windows NT has proven to be susceptible to the following types of attacks: