Data I have says that 20 of the Internet is vulnerable to this, and that's a huge, huge percentage of the BIND servers, ... no reason why it won't skip to other Unix versions.
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Alan Paller, director of the SANS Institute in Bethesda, Md., isn't so optimistic about how the new money would be used, however. My concern would be the skill with which Washington consultants and IT vendors in particular might package every pet project as 'security-enhancing,' ... If there were a tough, rational culling process ... I'd be a fan.Alan Paller
American corporations are being riddled by (computer) attacks they are being defended very badly.
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The only viruses using the hole aren't very malicious, but that has nothing to do with tomorrow.
Alan Paller
Most large organizations have a big investment in Symantec tools and wouldn't normally consider switching. This year, however, Symantec's products have repeatedly shown up on the list of the software with critical new security vulnerabilities. Many corporate IT managers are angry and frustrated that their security vendor is as careless as the operating system vendors in writing bad code. And Microsoft has succeeded in persuading many of them that they are far ahead of other software vendors in improving the situation for new products.
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