full-disclosure - Disney Down?

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Date: Thu Aug 18 01:45:32 2005
From: imipak at gmail.com (imipak)
Subject: Disney Down?

Larry Seltzer wrote:

> none of the current attacks will directly infect Windows XP systems,
> including consumer systems, and therefore will not linger there. To
> illustrate the point, it's a long time now since the RPC/DCOM bug
> was patched and still there are lots of infected systems out there
> spitting Blaster at the world; how many do you think are in Fortune
> 500 companies as opposed to consumer systems?
>

And what proportion of Internet-connected Windows PCs on the planet
belong to Fortune 500 companies, do you think?

And anyway -- I've personally witnessed 'Fortune 500' corps doing some
pretty astonishing stupidly insecure things, and I'm sure lots of
other FD'ers have their own horror stories. Take a few experienced
network and sysadmins to the pub some time... (Now I copme to think of
it -- is anyone collecting real world infosec horror stories?)

pip pip,

/i

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