"The single largest message is: keep your system up to date with patches," Microsoft Chief Security Officer Scott Charney said.
But the philosophy of patching is fundamentally flawed and leaves people vulnerable, Cooper said. For example,
Microsoft didn't follow its own advice as executives confirmed that an internal network was hit by the worm."Microsoft was completely hosed (from Slammer). It took them two days to get out from under it," said Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer of Counterpane Internet Security, a network monitoring service provider. "It's as hypocritical as you can get."
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/02/01/microsoft.security.reut/Also on Google news.
http://www.google.com/newsAn interesting note:
In the meantime, Schneier said he was thinking of switching from Windows to the Macintosh platform because of all the security issues. "My wife has a Mac and she doesn't worry about viruses, trojans, leaks..., " he said.
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