[83488] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Tue Aug 16 15:35:43 2005
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:34:16 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <200508161858.j7GIwOXE024853@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: "Church, Chuck" <cchurch@netcogov.com>,
nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:44:27 CDT, "Church, Chuck" said:
>
> > *** Rules are going to be different for residential vs. business
> > customers. Business customers who aren't on crack probably know better
> > to block netbios in and out.
>
> Whatever happened to the War On Drugs, anyhow? :)
>
> I think you're overestimating the security clue of most businesses. I'd
> *love* to be proved wrong by somebody citing a credible survey indicating that
> most businesses *are* Getting It Right....
I think Sean Donelan had a survey he quoted a few months ago saying that
most enterprises are still the den of iniquity... but I could have that
backwards.
