I would not necessarily say "stupid-admin prone." My experience shows that these admins are more lazy/apathetic than stupid. As you said, there are a lot of tools and information out there for people who care to secure their systems properly. As demonstrated by the problems in Disney and CNN, some businesses do not put an emphasis on properly patching and maintaining their Windows until a problem appears. Stupidity in II administration is not limited to administrators of Windows systems.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Micheal Espinola Jr Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Re: It's not that simple... Exactly. Because MS is such a stupid-admin prone OS, MS needs to work harder at making tools like the recent SCW (Security Configuration Wizard) available to all their OS's - not just the newer ones. Even though checklists and security docs these days are numerous for the basics - people aren't looking into them or following them because of all the manual steps involved. Things like the SCW need to be embedded in the OS to make it as idiot proof as possible to apply a secure configuration. I think we'll all agree that lots of idiots maintain Microsoft OS's. It isn't necessarily MS's fault - but it is a culture that they cultivated, so they definitely hold some accountability. On 8/18/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:28:04 EDT, Paul Melson said: > > > Very little pity for those who haven't hardened servers and workstation > > images this late in the game. > > The problem is that there's literally a half billion workstation images out > there, run by people who think "harden" is what pr0n does do them.... > > Remember - *most* machines are run by Joe Sixpacks, not trained sysadmins. > > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > > > -- ME2 <http://www.santeriasys.net/> _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ This e-mail is the property of Oxygen Media, LLC. It is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, or otherwise protected from disclosure. Distribution or copying of this e-mail or the information contained herein by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify us by sending an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy all electronic and paper copies of this e-mail. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
