Zombie Networks On The Rise

A reader writes " According to Symantec via the BBC online, Zombie PC nets are growing very fast. Of course, it should also note that Symantec may want those numbers to be as scary as possible. " ITMJ is part of OSTG, like Slashdot. There's also a NY Times story on the article as well.

Comments

Re:Is there any way...

[reflective recursion]

i'd like to see where he gets his numbers from.

Almost all the security problems that happen in software, like probably 95 percent of them, are low-level programmer errors

Quite meaningless figure, and not exactly low-level. They just happen to be part of the (implicit) C/C++ design. Lisp, Java, Haskell, ML, etc. do not have these problems. Blame the old Unix/C system design, but don't blame countless programmers who do, infact, know better but often just fsck things up by no fault of their own. Theo is awfully quick at placing the blame on programmers when it's a Unix security problem, but can easily turn around and place the blame on MS for *their* programmer errors. Why not just fess up? C/C++ are insecure. Systems designed with those are insecure. Both Unix and MS share equal blame in propagating this horribly flawed system.

Microsoft's security problems have to do with its Web client which probably has 300 to 500 vulnerabilities in it

Riiiight. I'm no MS supporter for you fanboys with mod points out there, but this is speculative bullshit.

The *only* difference between MS and Unix in terms of security is that with every little security issue, MS is under the spotlight instantly. Theo was still wearing diapers when most of the major Unix security issues were dealt with, and Slashdot did not exist.