[Am-info] Record-Breaking Year For Security Incidents Expected

[Steve Cohen]

No lie!

Here's an incident.
I'm normally protected with one of those mindless
hardware firewall routers.  But my cable modem
provider  is switching something so I had to let them
give me a new modem.  Since I wouldn't be there for
the switch, 
I left the computer in Windows and unplugged the
firewall, going directly into the computer to make the
install as brainless for the cable guy as it could be.

Bad idea.

The install was easy enough, but my wife called me ten
minutes later and told me the screen was now reporting
a virus infection (worm actually) - one that spread
over a network.

Ten minutes of unprotected access for the first virus.
Wow.

--- "Fred A. Miller" <fm@cupserv.org> wrote:
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> Record-Breaking Year For Security Incidents Expected
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> The U.S. government and private industry should
> prepare for a record-
> setting number of Internet security incidents in the
> year ahead, a
> panel of industry experts recently told Congress.
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http://computerworld.com/nlt/0%2C3590%2CNAV65-663_STO66054_NLTSEC%2C00.html
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> Fred A. Miller
> Systems Administrator
> Cornell Univ. Press Services
> fm@cupserv.org
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