[PLUG] Joe Jobbed - security considerations

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Tue Oct 9 13:59:13 UTC 2007


On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Michael Rasmussen wrote:

> When connected to the Internet you are on the same road as the billions of
> others at the same moment. Should the automated process that targets the
> vulnerability you've not patched and isn't blocked by your firewall sweep
> into your IP address you're toast.

   I understand this, Michael. I thought the situation was that most of these
vulnerabilities were conceptual and not actively being exploited. That's why
I thought that measures of exploitation would be more useful.

Thanks,

Rich

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