RE: [Full-Disclosure] ISS Security Brief: "MS Blast" MSRPC DCOM Worm Propagation (fwd)

["Dennis Heaton" <dennish@comcast.net>]

On the car radio today I heard that the Maryland Dept. of Motor Vehicles was
shutdown completely as well as numerous other state and federal agencies in
the USA.

What is really scary is that many companies or agencies will not report
their problems...the IT department does not want to look stupid.  So we may
never really now the extent of this worm!

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On Tuesday 12 August 2003 08:34, Richard Stevens wrote:
> I appreciate that many users dont know what a firewall is.. but this
> stuff is given so much coverage and sales pitch.. it makes you wonder....

It shouldn't surprise you. Just go back and read yesterday's list traffic. 
Take notice of how many people (on this list no less!) were apparently 
blissfully unaware that there was a vulnerability in the first place, much 
less knew what the symptoms were. Many of these people appear to be the 
very folks charged with maintaining systems and networks. How could they 
not know?

- -- 
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net



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