Alan Paller
Alan Paller
dealt internet traffic wave
That could be a real wave of traffic that the Internet has not dealt with.
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There is a wave of people looking for infected machines. We are getting into the second wave of infections. We haven't figured what they are doing. But we are seeing a very big wave of scanning.
mapping protect situation systems
It is a situation where MCSEs had no idea that there is a fundamental vulnerability in IIS and ISAPI mapping and so had no way to protect their systems other than after-the-fact patching,
appear plain
Most of them, ... appear to be just plain thieves.
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Most large organizations have a big investment in Symantec tools and wouldn't normally consider switching. This year, however, Symantec's products have repeatedly shown up on the list of the software with critical new security vulnerabilities. Many corporate IT managers are angry and frustrated that their security vendor is as careless as the operating system vendors in writing bad code. And Microsoft has succeeded in persuading many of them that they are far ahead of other software vendors in improving the situation for new products.
delay excuse
Microsoft's delay is inexcusable. There's no excuse other than incompetence and negligence.
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We have made enormous progress over the past five years by forcing the vendors to deliver automated patching. Now the bad guys are saying: 'You did that, now we're going after the applications.' Now we have to start all over again.
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It gives anyone on the Internet who comes in as a browsing user the ability to take control of your site. Instead of looking at Web pages, they can make your computer do whatever they want.
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Data I have says that 20% of the Internet is vulnerable to this, and that's a huge, huge percentage of the BIND servers, ... no reason why it won't skip to other Unix versions.
attention choose far parts pay pick systems
Systems integrators pick and choose the parts of the FAR they pay attention to,
addition call collateral creates inside mean traffic
It's something we call collateral damage, but I don't mean that lightly. This thing creates traffic inside a subnet, creates traffic in addition to what comes in from the outside.
attacks defended
American corporations are being riddled by (computer) attacks ? they are being defended very badly.
bunch paid
It wasn't just a bunch of paid consultants.
denial fighting hard people savvy service time
This illustrates that even technologically savvy people have a hard time fighting off denial of service attacks.