It turns out that the vast bulk of the federal information security money is spent on documenting these systems, not on securing or testing them against attacks. Most [agencies] are spending so much on the paperwork exercises that they don't have a lot of money left over to fix the problems they've identified. - Alan Paller Quotes
It turns out that the vast bulk of the federal information security money is spent on documenting these systems, not on securing or testing them against attacks. Most [agencies] are spending so much on the paperwork exercises that they don't have a lot of money left over to fix the problems they've identified. Alan Paller
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If an early infectee had an e-mail list with reporters at all the major news services, that would start the cascade. News organizations do not have radical e-mail attachment limits (like a rule banning all picture attachments) because they get legitimate pictures. - Alan Paller Quotes

If an early infectee had an e-mail list with reporters at all the major news services, that would start the cascade. News organizations do not have radical e-mail attachment limits (like a rule banning all picture attachments) because they get legitimate pictures.

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Most of them, ... appear to be just plain thieves. - Alan Paller Quotes

Most of them, ... appear to be just plain thieves.

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It gives anyone on the Internet who comes in as a browsing user the ability to take control of your site. Instead of looking at Web pages, they can make your computer do whatever they want. - Alan Paller Quotes

It gives anyone on the Internet who comes in as a browsing user the ability to take control of your site. Instead of looking at Web pages, they can make your computer do whatever they want.

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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. - Alan Paller Quotes

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.

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That could be a real wave of traffic that the Internet has not dealt with. - Alan Paller Quotes

That could be a real wave of traffic that the Internet has not dealt with.

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It would have been terrible (without the widespread patching). That got a lot of systems fixed. - Alan Paller Quotes

It would have been terrible (without the widespread patching). That got a lot of systems fixed.

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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, - Alan Paller Quotes

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,

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all the new PCs and the new Web servers, multiplied by the fear of top management about security breaches and business-stopping system failures, kept these salaries [growing] three times as fast as salaries [across all industries]. - Alan Paller Quotes

all the new PCs and the new Web servers, multiplied by the fear of top management about security breaches and business-stopping system failures, kept these salaries [growing] three times as fast as salaries [across all industries].

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It's not a major risk. It's not [doing] either of the two things that are terribly damaging. One is hurting people's machines, and one is knocking things [off-line]. - Alan Paller Quotes

It's not a major risk. It's not [doing] either of the two things that are terribly damaging. One is hurting people's machines, and one is knocking things [off-line].

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 Risk
[Saturday's worm] is the recruitment of soldiers, not telling the soldiers where to aim their guns. - Alan Paller Quotes

[Saturday's worm] is the recruitment of soldiers, not telling the soldiers where to aim their guns.

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