Archive | November 14, 2003

Some interesting conclusions that patching doesn’t work. Not convinced that I agree. Patching may not work if the underlying operating system is insecure enough, perhaps. But an interesting read.

CIO: FrankenPatch. “Those looking to cast blame–and there were many–cried a familiar refrain: If everyone had just patched his system in the first place, Slammer wouldn’t have happened. But that’s not true. And therein lies our story. Slammer was unstoppable. Which points to a bigger issue: Patching no longer works.” Link from Tomalak’s Realm