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Re: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434!
From: Colm MacCárthaigh <colmmacc () Redbrick DCU IE>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 00:45:21 +0000
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 01:53:10PM -1000, Jason Coombs wrote:
Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:If the worm had a malicious (in your terms) payload, it would have caused networks just as many problems (so no gain there), and more harm to MS-SQL users. Using your logic, surely this much more damaging experience would have cause MS-SQL admins to be more responsible in keeping up to date ? Or rather, more fearful of future exploits.Precisely my point. Sapphire was not designed to inspire fear. If this had been a terrorist act it would have done so, and it could have done so.
Consider that in order to exploit a target, it is counter-productive to inspire fear within this target. I do agree that this exploit was likely neither a Terrorist act nor primarily designed to inpire fear. Far more likely it was designed to make headlines, and a name for someone.
anything actually *damaged* by Sapphire (in a physical/non-trivial sense of the word) was too vulnerable for use in the first place.
Unfortunatley the "anything" is the Internet, and "vulnerability" is the CPU-bound nature of routers and the finite capacity of network links. -- colmmacc at redbrick.dcu.ie
Current thread:
- Re: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434!, (continued)
- Re: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434! Tom Kyle (Jan 25)
- Re: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434! cstone (Jan 25)
- Re: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434! Ed Blanchfield (Jan 27)
- Re: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434! Umit Tiric (Jan 25)
- Re: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434! George William Herbert (Jan 25)
- RE: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434! trent dilkie (Jan 25)
- Re: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434! Dave Aitel (Jan 25)
- Re[2]: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434! Stephane - BasicLink (Jan 25)
- RE: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434! Dick St.Peters (Jan 25)
- RE: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434! Jason Coombs (Jan 25)
- Re: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434! Colm MacCárthaigh (Jan 25)
- Re: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434! Charles Miller (Jan 25)
- RE: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434! Brian McGrogan (Jan 25)
- RE: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434! trent dilkie (Jan 28)