[73167] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Aug 15 17:47:54 2004
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 17:46:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <411FA771.3080108@ai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Deepak Jain wrote:
> I agree with Mikael here. If your box is fully patched you need not
> worry about that much -- if you are still having problems, check your
> assumptions. :) Windows 2003 Web Servers are up unfiltered out there,
> there isn't a real reason why a Windows XP laptop wouldn't be [exploita
> du jour excepted].
Assumptions are a funny thing. Its amazing how many patched systems with
firewalls are compromised. Understanding how and why that happens is
important.
