Chapter 6. Internet Information Services – Web Service Attacks
Information in this Chapter
- Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Overview
- How IIS Attacks Work
- Dangers with IIS Attacks
- Future of IIS Attacks
- Defenses Against IIS Attacks
Early in 2009, the Ball State University of Muncie, Indiana was the target of an attack using a vulnerability found in the Internet Information Services (IIS) Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) component as described in Microsoft Security Advisory (971492)[A] and as reported by ZDNet Asia.[B] This discovery markets yet another vulnerability in the Microsoft IIS product and once again turned its focus back to how even products that have been around for many years can still contain ...
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