Worms Hit Home

Worms Hit Home
Kelly Martin, 2004-01-26

Worms Hit Home 2004-01-27
Anonymous (2 replies)

Do we really want everybody to be clean and free of viruses. Do we really want there to be no vunerablities. I think my answer is NO. I would be out of a job. Being a security professional is a double-edged sword. Honesty, I belive that its just one vicious cycle of hackers of youth grow up to be s...

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Worms Hit Home 2004-01-27
Anonymous (2 replies)

Using that logic, I would have to assume you are in favor of no further research to find a cure for AIDS or cancer?...

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Worms Hit Home 2004-01-28
Anonymous

Actually it would be interpreted as doing the research just don't find the cure, then there would be nothing to research....

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Worms Hit Home 2004-02-02
Anonymous

Pay no attention to my tin foil hat...

But in the case of another virus - the common cold - I believe it's an industry doing exactly this. If there were a cure, would there be as much revenue from cold symptom alleviation medicine? Ditto with the flu. They perpetuate the demand for their products...

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Worms Hit Home 2004-01-29
Anonymous CISSP (1 replies)

This must be a troll right?

If not, then go read "The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security" by Kevin Mitnick.

Until humans become extinct, they'll be jobs for Security Professionals. ;-)...

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Worms Hit Home 2004-02-01
Anonymous

I agree with the guy who referenced Mitnick, as long as there are humans using the machines, there will be open avenues for suckering someone with social engineering techniques.

It blows my mind that most average users will not THINK before opening up an email or do simple things like saving the...

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Worms Hit Home 2004-01-28
Anonymous (2 replies)

Well, we know who to blame...MICROSOFT!

Their effort in making things easier and allowing ANYONE (no clue about security) to be hooked up to the Net.

Their failure to inform their users about security issues or even the basics (when they had a chance in the past), has resulted in the continuin...

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Worms Hit Home 2004-01-29
Coldman (1 replies)

Strange logic... Applying it to the life...

It is not criminal's fault that he took your money... It is your fault - you didn't protect yourself, your money... And the police - they didn't protect you, and your money. Like this?

Sure, it is only Microsoft who are responsible for all that virus...

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Worms Hit Home 2004-01-30
Anonymous CISSP (1 replies)

Your reply is just a variation on NRA's mantra "it's not guns that kill people, but the person who pulls the trigger".

Yeah, whatever. Anyway, few arguments stand-up very well when taken to their extremes. (Physicists will be familiar with the phrase "boundary conditions").

The facts however ...

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Worms Hit Home 2004-01-31
Coldman

...but ulinke car manufacturers, software companies explicitly disclaim all (and any) warranties etc, or?

Frankly, I know only one perfect and safe software "product" - famous "Hello, world!" example. Everything else is not perfect (and will never be perfect).

But even if your a) would be elim...

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Worms Hit Home 2004-02-01
Anonymous

Ah, the zealots are here....

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Worms Hit Home 2004-01-28
Anonymous

As a security professional with a near-80 year old mother who uses broadband and wants to do Internet banking, and a professional who doesn't want to spend time each and every week updating the machine, I bought her an Apple, checked the configuration, placed it behind a hardware firewall, and now j...

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Worms Hit Home 2004-01-29
Anonymous CISSP (1 replies)

'Where do you want to go today?'

Linux!

Running it since 98, and not so much as a squeak. ;-)

OK, enough with the baiting, on a more serious note, there's a possible use for the law. (*gasp in shock*)

If software vendors are held liable in the same way as motor car manufacturers are, i...

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Worms Hit Home 2004-02-01
Anonymous

So who are you going to charge for the almost daily vulnerabilities found in Linux and open source programs?...

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Worms Hit Home 2004-01-29
Anonymous

"In the interim, why don't you take a week of holidays away from the virus world and spread some good cheer -- and remember to tell all your semi-computer-literate friends to patch their home computers, install a firewall, keep their virus definitions up-to-date and develop an attack plan against sp...

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Worms Hit Home 2004-01-30
Anonymous CISSP MCSE ACT GOD BEST WHATEVERELSE

Both the community and the vendor need to be held responsible for the current state of things. Microsoft preaches "Trustworthy Computing" and talks about how "secure" their OS is. A normal user has absolutely no comprehension of the dangers of an unpatched machine. Even though I have all those let...

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Get a mac!!!! 2004-02-02
Anonymous

and you won't worry about viruses any more...

if everybody were using mac, there won't be so terrible viruses! Microsoft just make it too simple...

and as security manager, you won't have a job anymore ;-)...

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Worms Hit Home 2004-02-02
Anonymous

Frankly, I think MSFT should develop a secure version of its OS's going back to Win98 and offer them for free for a period of time ... 12 months would be about right.

This would do more good than doubling the bounty on the next virus writer, and the next and the next and the one after her.

Mi...

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Worms Hit Home 2004-02-02
Anonymous

Wanting all users to be patched is a wonderful goal, but we have to look at the reality here...

Although more and more people are getting a broadband connection, we cannot forget about the people still on dial-up. It is virtually impossible for these folks to update anything, be it their AV soft...

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