Johannes Ullrich
Johannes Ullrich
Johannes Ullrich is the founder of DShield. DShield is now part of the SANS Internet Storm Center which he leads since it was created from Incidents.org and DShield back in 2001. In 2005, he was named one of the 50 most powerful people in Networking by Network World Magazine. He is the dean of research, and an instructor for the SANS Institute...
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For home users: Apply the patch as soon as you can.
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It?s sort of a wake-up call for Apple users. Everybody focuses on Windows, but there are viruses for other operating systems.
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Each patch (official or not) has a chance to 'blow up' and cause unintended side effects.
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It used to be teenagers looking for bragging rights. Now it's done for profit.
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The vulnerability itself has been known about for a while, but it was only a problem for a denial-of-service attack that would sometimes cause IE to crash. Up until now, no one knew how to mark the code and find it in memory to execute a remote code attack.
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The problem with this attack is that it is so hard to defend against for the average user.
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We've basically built doors now for 4,000 years and still have burglaries.
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Writing a cross-platform worm is difficult because it limits you to functions that are available on both operating systems. You have to also code the virus in assembly to make it work without relying on any OS-specific function.
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This laptop will infect your systems from the inside.
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A new version can be pushed out every four hours. You can never catch up.
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I think we'll see an increase in virus activity as Linux becomes more mainstream.
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It claims to be a movie or picture with some sort of sexual content. That is how it tricks you.
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Particularly over the last year, anti-virus (programs) have lost a lot of their effectiveness. They are basically no longer capable of keeping up with the proliferation of new viruses.
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In this case, Microsoft is taking too long.