Tuesday, January 28, 2003 |
16:07 - Bringing New Meaning to "Do Not Forward"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/29073.html
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Ah yes, now we see why the logo of The Register is a vulture.
Here's a stream of internal Microsoft IT memos that circulated on Saturday the 25th, as the Slammer worm spread around the Net (including within Microsoft). How the heck did they leak? Who in Microsoft's IT department would be so willing to pass compromising info like this on to The Register of all people? (Then again, the recipient lists on a lot of these messages are fairly extensive. I'm sure there are a nonzero number of self-haters among the lot.)
It's certainly revealing to see the dynamics of how Microsoft tried to get on top of this. But as John Leyden says:
Those who blame system admins for the spread of the worm might do well to ponder on the fact even Microsoft had not applied its fix which, it's now clear, was far from easy to apply.
Plus, as CapLion wryly noted, when was the last time you heard of an Oracle or DB2 worm taking down the Net?
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