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Experts Say Microsoft Security Effort Failing | |
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| Time: 10:12 EST/15:12 GMT | News Source: Reuters | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Computer security experts said on Thursday the recent "SQL Slammer" worm, the worst in more than a year, is evidence that Microsoft Corp.'s MSFT.O year-old security push is not working. "Trustworthy Computing is failing," Russ Cooper of TruSecure Corp. said of the Microsoft initiative. "I gave it a 'D-minus' at the beginning of the year, and now I'd give it an 'F."' | ||
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| #1 By 61 (65.32.170.1) at 1/31/2003 1:26:50 PM |
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Seeing where as SQL2000 has been out longer than the initiative began....
I can't stand the pure idiocy coming out of the media channels lately, it's almost like there is no COMMEN SENSE in the world today... and that really irritates me, and just makes me want to slap the idiot. |
| #2 By 1643 (131.107.3.84) at 1/31/2003 1:53:55 PM |
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#4 The servers that affected MS was actually developer machines...not there production systems. With so many developers on the network, a bunch were likely not to be patched, as they are not managed by the central IT group. Everyone at MS has admin rights on there individual machines...so a few developers (i.e. not DBA, infrastructure, or security experts) didn't patch there desktops. Then it just takes one person to RAS into the network with the worm...and there goes the network.
I think you will be seeing auto patching mechanisms like windows update more integrated with MS products in the future (even server apps) due to this worm. #5 I can't agree with you more, but the media's job is to sell paper, clicks, advertising, etc...so the more they can keep up this anti-ms thing, the better their ratings. Just business. This post was edited by humor on Friday, January 31, 2003 at 13:56. |
| #3 By 94 (66.126.25.196) at 1/31/2003 2:26:35 PM |
| I agree, optional auto-patching is a good idea for server based products. But MS being a hypocrit because they didn't patch every server, hmm, donno bout that. There must be 20,000 employees at MS spread all over the world. To expect everyone of them to perform the same way...I'm sure there were a lot of servers that MS did patch, but like everyone else, they missed some. The point is, they released a patch, then a patch that messed it up, then a service pack, before the worm hit. They could have done a better job, but the did do their job and fixed it. If you had removed the human equation and had patching automated, then maybe Slammer wouldn't have done much damage. In most cases of large attacks on known exploits, I place blame on the admins, not the software company. While our SQL servers weren't exposed to this problem, our network still went down because we had a hole in the firewall, and something else got through. My bad! I fixed it, and life moves on. The hole exploited a Win2k machine vulnerability, but I dont blame MS, cause it was my fault for leaving the hole open on the firewall. |
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