26 January 2003

26Jan2003

SQL Worm Irony

Microsoft's homepage, on the day the SQL Server worm crippled large sections of the Internet: "Today's News: Bill Gates reports on security progress made and the challenges ahead." (Image on site) →

26Jan2003

Are Network Worms Healthy?

The solution isn't defensive worms. The solution lies in the recognition (seldom expressed, lest we later regret it ourselves), that the failure to patch a seven-month bug is negligence, the failure to firewall non-essential open ports on network servers is negligence. In other matters, the failure to implement egress filtering is negligence. We could probably come up with a pretty good baseline of what is obvious systems administration negligence when it comes to security. →