Re: Why isn't IBM rebuting this?

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Are you saying that Microsoft's internal business servers are on the
> interent? Likewise with Bank of America and American Express?

Booth - the Slammer Worm was replicating to any server listening on
a select port (used by MS SQL Server)causing a buffer overflow. Once
comprimised it would re-launch. It's biggest blow to corp networks was the
flood of traffic with it trying to populate.
For "whatever reason", that flood brought down a major part of Bank
America's
ATM network. No one is thinking the ATM is SQL Server, but obviously
the ATM network was affected by the flood. Why do you think they call it
Denial of Service? But Bank America must of had some unpatched servers
inside to cause this problem. The fix to block the port at your firewall was
out on the net in less than half hour(if your listening), but this worm had
already spread.
Several news orgs reported that a MS Network Manager admitted they got hit
too.
Amercian Express was in original ad that started this thread,....
btw - the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance in the orig article is many
companies,
including IBM, working towards better pc security.
http://www.trustedcomputing.org/tcpaasp4/index.asp
MS has had a lot of security headlines lately - and many not favorable.
jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Booth Martin" <Booth@MartinVT.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 4:09 PM
Subject: RE: Why isn't IBM rebuting this?


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