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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: ISPs are asked to block yet another port
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, gml wrote: > Security is a lifestyle. > People laugh when I say this, do they laugh when you say it? > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Christopher L. Morrow > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 12:00 AM > To: Niels Bakker > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: ISPs are asked to block yet another port > > > > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Niels Bakker wrote: > > > > > * [email protected] (Christopher L. Morrow) [Mon 23 Jun 2003, 18:01 CEST]: > > [..] > > > Two interesting points though: > > > > > > 1) Spammers adapt > > > 2) default insecure OS installs cause problems > > > > Employees of XS4ALL, a Dutch ISP, today held several talks about a > > variety of subjects for its customers to celebrate its 10th anniversary. > > One of the talks was about security in general, held by Scott McIntyre. > > Hopefully he'll have the slides on soon because it was an excellent > > talk, in which he touched upon several subjects mentioned in this thread > > (spammers, trojans, viruses, default installations being vulnerable, > > that port blocking is not a solution at all). > > > > I'll post a URL when it becomes available. > > Sweet, too many people just don't take security very seriously :( Its a > shame really, security only seems to matter when the sky is falling, its > not taken as a daily necessity. > > -Chris >
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