It is if your social security number, credit card and/or name and address are on one of them and it gets compromised.
This is everyone's problem. If attorneys weren't so backwards they'd be jumping on some class action suits...
People need to get their heads out of the sand and patch their damn servers.
All of us should be furious over this. It's one thing if the boxes are behind a well configured firewall and segregated from the rest of the network in a DMZ with nothing but a web server to talk to, which is patched and secure. Quite another when they are wide open, unpatched and exposed on the internet.
This is everyone's problem. If attorneys weren't so backwards they'd be jumping on some class action suits...
People need to get their heads out of the sand and patch their damn servers.
All of us should be furious over this. It's one thing if the boxes are behind a well configured firewall and segregated from the rest of the network in a DMZ with nothing but a web server to talk to, which is patched and secure. Quite another when they are wide open, unpatched and exposed on the internet.
>shakes head<
-AC
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