Of course it's the government. Governments will pay anything for control of other governments' computers. All governments will pay anything. It's so much better than tapping a phone.
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It gives anyone on the Internet who comes in as a browsing user the ability to take control of your site. Instead of looking at Web pages, they can make your computer do whatever they want.Alan Paller
The shortcut to improved security is universal, repeatable monitoring, ... The Army is now trying Harris STAT. The big difference is that NASA picked the most critical vulnerabilities rather than looking at all 2,000. The latter always leads to overload and lack of action. NASA's approach works.
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We have made enormous progress over the past five years by forcing the vendors to deliver automated patching. Now the bad guys are saying 'You did that, now we're going after the applications.' Now we have to start all over again.
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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.
Alan Paller
If an early infectee had an e-mail list with reporters at all the major news services, that would start the cascade. News organizations do not have radical e-mail attachment limits (like a rule banning all picture attachments) because they get legitimate pictures.
Alan Paller
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