25 January 2003

25Jan2003

SQL Worm Irony

By carlfish on

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)

25Jan2003

Are Network Worms Healthy?

By carlfish on

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.

25Jan2003

"Trustworthy Computing" - welcomes the SQL Server worm.

By carlfish on

Hello, Internet-wide denial of service attack. **** you, Microsoft. **** you, incompetent server administrators who are not only too lazy to get off their stupid asses and upgrade a broken piece of software, but are too ****ing clueless to put their servers behind a firewall and block access to administrative ports.