Re: Why isn't IBM rebuting this?

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Why isn't IBM saying "This is just not true.  Many networks out there are
> safe and secure and have been for decades."

to say "i'm secure" (in public) is to dare every hack group to prove you
wrong
(which is one reason MS is so "popular"...
btw-not sure who does the real work, but Bank of America has been featured
in some of the IBM eServer ads... and to have a DOS attack bring down ATM's
sounds just as stupid as MS not patching their own servers.
A side note - MS SQL servers were not the only targets of Slammer.
jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Booth Martin" <Booth@MartinVT.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 1:03 PM
Subject: Why isn't IBM rebuting this?


>
>  "The disturbing lesson: Regardless of what protective measures have been
> taken, no network can be considered secure. Companies deemed bastions of
> security--such giants as Bank of America, American Express and Microsoft,
> under its year-old Trustworthy Computing initiative--found their internal
> networks deluged with data from the Slammer attack."
>
> Why isn't IBM saying "This is just not true.  Many networks out there are
> safe and secure and have been for decades."  Why aren't news stories
> including quotes from IBM people, not just MS apologists?  gads folks,
that
> s marketing!  Its not some crazy film clip of cute young geekettes talking
> about taking over European markets.
>
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