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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Level3 routing issues?
On 26 Jan 2003, Michael Lamoureux wrote: > > "dave" == Dave Stewart <[email protected]> writes: > > dave> I've seen various references to this worm firing off and > dave> saturating networks worldwide within 1 minute... if *that* isn't > dave> scary, I don't know what is. It shows that someone, with the > dave> right tools and enough vulnerable servers can take out a good > dave> portion of the Internet in seconds. And how can we predict > dave> *every* possible issue and block it? > > Exactly!! This is why the Right Answer (TM) is to get end-users to > secure their systems and networks so that an attacker can't get a > critical mass of hosts in 1 minute (or even 1 month). You can only do Maybe the underlying theme is that, for whatever reasons (market preassures, business idiocy?), we find ourselves on a network that's largely a collection of monoculture hosts -- win32 on x86. --Tk
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