RE: Sasser author

[Harlan Carvey <keydet89 () yahoo com>]

Come on, Larry...

The first thing in the MS bulletin about Sasser is
"enable a firewall"...block the port.  Slammer was the
same way.

And yeah, I know about the dial-up and VPN issues, but
there are designs that protect against infections
there, was well.

Perhaps after all these years of publishing "best
practices", maybe the victims would
stop...well...being victimized.


--- Larry Seltzer <larry () larryseltzer com> wrote:
> > > Sasser violates poorly designed/implemented
> network infrastructures.
>
> I think we'd better be careful with all this moral
> equivocating. Some of it's right up
> there with "she was wearing provocative clothing."
> It's obvious who the criminal is and
> who the victim is.
>
> Larry Seltzer
> eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
> http://security.eweek.com/
> http://blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer
> larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 

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