I will say this: The FBI had a working version of their tool over New Years Day weekend, and it detected a stacheldraht daemon running on one of the machines in our network. This allowed me to take early proactive steps to reduce the odds that one of my systems would be part of such childishness.
SANS and CERT have been on this in a low-key sort of way for a month and a half, and system administrators have been scanning, reading logs, and taking extra steps to secure their systems.
This has raised awareness, and while I sympathize with the victims of the past few days, it certainly vindicates the amount of time I have spent reading syslogs, installing patches, running scans for illicit activity, and so forth. And I am under no illusions that my systems are immune. -----------------------------------------
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SANS and CERT have been on this in a low-key sort of way for a month and a half, and system administrators have been scanning, reading logs, and taking extra steps to secure their systems.
This has raised awareness, and while I sympathize with the victims of the past few days, it certainly vindicates the amount of time I have spent reading syslogs, installing patches, running scans for illicit activity, and so forth. And I am under no illusions that my systems are immune.
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