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Lessons Learned From Blaster
CowboyRobot writes "It's been nearly a year since Blaster struck, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in fixes and lost revenue.
Jim Morrison of Symantec goes step-by-step in looking at how the Blaster worm got out of control so quickly, and what lessons can be learned from that event, by studying how one utility company dealt with it." The story is written as a fun, technothriller narrative; here's an snippet: "The laptops, usually out in the field, were always a hit-and-miss proposition to find on the network and deliver a patch or to have the user take the machine to a field office. That meant that on the 16th they could see a flood of traffic launched against Microsoft. The second phase of Blaster, launching a DoS (denial of service) attack against windowsupdate.com, was imminent."
No the best posts will be the ones from 'experts' who will tell you not to run Windows because MS is evil and trying to destroy your computer.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
How did the Blaster worm got out of control so quickly?
Stupid people still using Microsoft products... that's how.
How do we solve this problem?
Install Linux... that's how.