[Full-Disclosure] Learn from history?

[Alerta Redsegura]

> > > > 2. If a patch cannot be installed, find workarounds
> > >
> > > That does not work with the workarounds customer need to facilitate
> > > life (security <> easy of use, remember)
> >
> > In the particular case of Sasser, workarounds indicated in KB
> > 835732 and/or making sure TCP 445 is closed to the outside
> > world was enough and not difficult to achieve.
> >
> Not it wasn't enough.  It would be until someone dialled to the
> Internet, or even to some other third party network that had the virus.
> The only thing that was enough was to patch.  The only people who
> have the luxury of not patching are those who have no connectivity
> from their LAN to any other network.

If the "Internet" and a "third party network" are not part of the "outside
world", what are they?





Iñigo Koch
Red Segura