Re: Microsoft Security Failure (should have stayed with AS/400)

The latest I've heard is that MS is now looking at an employee HOME computer 
that
was compromised and used to launch the attack !! THAT should get some net admins
attention - ESPECIALLY if this was going out as straight email as they are
saying. Lot of server side checks look for large graphic file, etc. coming IN 
but
not out...

Chuck

MacWheel99@aol.com wrote:

> e-Week this week page 15 has a story that the hacker's data was e-mailed to
> St Petersburg Russia & the attack was with the Troj/Qaz Trojan horse, in
> which if Microsoft had a firewall in place with a reasonable proximity to
> latest version of the code, then the hacker would not have been able to
> penetrate.  This leads to speculation about developers who remove security,
> because it is easier to install stuff, then forget to put it back on, and
> about not keeping software up to date.
>
> Alister William Macintyre
>
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