Alan Paller
Alan Paller
figured infected looking people second seeing wave
There is a wave of people looking for infected machines. We are getting into the second wave of infections. We haven't figured what they are doing. But we are seeing a very big wave of scanning.
denial fighting hard people savvy service time
This illustrates that even technologically savvy people have a hard time fighting off denial of service attacks.
computers control course pay tapping
Of course it's the government. Governments will pay anything for control of other governments' computers. All governments will pay anything. It's so much better than tapping a phone.
systems terrible widespread
It would have been terrible (without the widespread patching). That got a lot of systems fixed.
mapping protect situation systems
It is a situation where MCSEs had no idea that there is a fundamental vulnerability in IIS and ISAPI mapping and so had no way to protect their systems other than after-the-fact patching,