[102415] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IBM report reviews Internet crime
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Tue Feb 12 15:52:34 2008
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:48:06 -0500
From: "Jim Popovitch" <yahoo@jimpop.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5879.1202848078@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Feb 12, 2008 3:27 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> Not necessarily - it's unclear they mean "the vuln innately can't be fixed
> by a mere patch, because it's a social engineering issue", or "the vuln can't
> be fixed because the vendor has not yet shipped a patch for some reason".
... or the patch application mechanism isn't likely to be successful
against sufficiently infected machines.
-Jim P.
