On 26 Jan 2003, Michael Lamoureux wrote:
"dave" == Dave Stewart <dbs@dbscom.com> writes:
dave> I've seen various references to this worm firing off and dave> saturating networks worldwide within 1 minute... if *that* isn't dave> scary, I don't know what is. It shows that someone, with the dave> right tools and enough vulnerable servers can take out a good dave> portion of the Internet in seconds. And how can we predict dave> *every* possible issue and block it?
Exactly!! This is why the Right Answer (TM) is to get end-users to secure their systems and networks so that an attacker can't get a critical mass of hosts in 1 minute (or even 1 month). You can only do
Maybe the underlying theme is that, for whatever reasons (market preassures, business idiocy?), we find ourselves on a network that's largely a collection of monoculture hosts -- win32 on x86. --Tk