[Dailydave] lots of monkeys staring at a screen....security?

[David Maynor]

No, everytime somebody does a fresh install of Windows 2000 for some project
and doesn't update to the current patch levels you can be hit by those same
old attacks. Alot of people forget that not every company in the world is
focused on security and as long as something works doing things like
applying patches or upgrading to the latest versions is not the most
important thing.

On 10/29/06, Joanna Rutkowska <joanna at invisiblethings.org> wrote:
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> Kevin Johnson wrote:
> > Part of any defense is the ability to detect when things fail.  I
> > think that we want to throw out technology because it doesn't do
> > everything.  I see every day systems being attacked by simplistic old
> > attacks that IDS systems can warn you about.
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> I might be missing something, but I really don't get why we should care
> about all those "simplistic old attacks" - shouldn't we already be
> immune to them?
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> joanna.
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