Kent Loobey wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_993000/993933.stm
Woo-hoo! We're having fun now!
The article says that the crackers (mistakenly referred to as hackers)
used a known worm/virus to break in, and, once they were in, they were
undetected for three months. That's pretty interesting, I think.
Now I want to see how much the mainstream press covers that aspect of
it. Namely that Windows is so insecure that any user can use an off
the shelf virus* to break into Microsoft's own intranet. One would
think that Microsoft would have some expertise at securing
Windows-based networks.
The only direct comparison between this worm and the famous Morris
worm of 1987 is that the Unix community is 13 years ahead of Microsoft
in knowing how to deal with this stuff.
* Yeah, I know. It's a worm plus a trojan, not a virus. Cracker,
not hacker. Facial tissue, not Kleenex[TM].
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