Re: First Email of the Day (Re: OT: The Irony in It!)

"a.s.j." <kali_at_xxxx.com> wrote in message news:3E357428.7142_at_xxxx.com...
> hmmm...i give our IT more credit than that....we switched to linux
> didn't we? on the other hand, IT heads who continue to use microsoft
> products on the face of such problems sure do NEED to have their "heads"
> examined, don't they (pun intended)?

I take it you also advised them to stop using BIND when the vulnerabilities in that were exposed, and Oracle 9i when you discover that a user with create session and create view privileges can trash the database beyond repair, or if they were a select only user then they could merely see all data within the db regardless of access privileges.

This vulnerability - like Nimda has had a patch for a significant period. falling victim to it is not the fault of M$.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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