Russ Cooper Quotes (12 Quotes)

I have a lot of control from within my browser, such as Web proxies, but in mail, what controls do I have ... I have nowhere near the same amount of security.

There's been way more attention given it in the media than it deserves.

This is going to cause the meltdown of the Internet, the vulnerability that this worm is exploiting.

It's a new year, it's been ages since we've seen something like Blaster and AV firms are wondering how they're going to get everyone's attention. I think it's winter and we're bored.

Our recommendation to our customers is to get patches applied within 90 days, because the normal mechanisms should prevent this from getting to your organization.

If Microsoft's publicity of this update is successful, far too many consumers will believe they have received a comprehensive security update, ... This will make it significantly more difficult to convince them to take additional steps to secure themselves.

I think there are enough hackers in the world that will look for machines they can own. It's not difficult to find them. It is very easy to control a large number of machines.

To check all those signatures may be cumbersome and not a quick fix, but it's a good idea.

Maybe it's going to take a massive online attack ... a concerted attack against government interests. It's hard to say what will cause a shift in the thinking.

We're not talking about excessive e-mails from Columbia House here, but instead e-mail offerings for drugs that really aren't, or goods that never appear. Spam is so insidious these days that it is to the point that it seriously disrupts day-to-day business and creates a distinct loss of GDP gross domestic product.

There are probably a significant number of machines that have been compromised and nobody knows.

I don't think Windows is more or less secure than some other operating system, ... I think that there are technologies from Microsoft that are good there are others that are not good and there are others that still need to be refined and improved, but that are still very much in demand.