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RE: [FW1] Code Red: What security specialist don't mention in warnings


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  • Subject: RE: [FW1] Code Red: What security specialist don't mention in warnings
  • From: "Hal Dorsman" <[email protected]>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 06:31:59 -0600
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  • Thread-topic: [FW1] Code Red: What security specialist don't mention in warnings



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Knobbe [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:33 PM
> To: Frank Knobbe
> Subject: [FW1] Code Red: What security specialist don't mention in
> warnings
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm sure you have heard and read plenty of warnings about the 
> Code Red worm,
> which is supposed to awake again. The Code Red worm 'infects' 
> Microsoft
> Internet Information Servers by exploiting a vulnerability 
> (or bug) that
> Microsoft had issued a patch 

snip

> There is another issue that has not been addressed by any of 
> the advisories
> at all (even by those who preach the multi-layered defense). 
> What has been
> overlooked is simply proper firewalling of the web servers. 

That will help, but what we really need are secure operating systems.

Hal


> 


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