Sasser Worm Bites Businesses Worldwide
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Although by Friday the Sasser worms had dramatically tailed off — security firm Panda Software reported that Sasser accounted for just 13 percent of all tracked malware Friday, compared with a high of 40 percent on Sunday — the attacks took their toll in the U.S. and overseas. Delta Airlines, American Express, Associated Press, two major universities, and a leading hospital were among Sasser’s victims.
Delta Airlines, for instance, experienced computer difficulties Saturday that forced the cancellation and delay of some flights. The problems began at 2:50 p.m. local time and were fixed by 9:30 Saturday evening, said Katie Connell, a Delta spokeswoman.
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These companies should fire their IT department asap. What the hell are their IT people doing? looking at porn and wanking? When Microsoft releases patches to fix known vulnerabilities you patch the software. Almost every single worm and virus infection occurs because someone is to damn stupid to update/patch their software or update their antivirus database. And I find it funny that an airlines and a credit card company both had such lame assed IT personnel as to not patch their systems software up and defend against a known vulnerability.
I think that I would fire the entire IT department or sue them for the losses and defamation that being vulnerable to these worms has produced. Who feels confident with Delta Airlines or American Express now?
This is like finding out that Fort Knox has a backdoor to their vaults that lays open all the time
You know it’s really bad when a home user such as myself and those I know around me keep their systems running the most up to date software complete with all the patches and current antivirus databases, and businesses as big as American Express and Delta Airlines are dragging their feet.
Microsoft had released a security update that prevented Sasser back on April 13th. What the hell would make an IT department lag behind almost a month before installing these patches