[Gllug] Net outages caused by worm possibly

[Simon Wilcox]

On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 11:33, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Tethys wrote:
> 
> > >What about replication when done across different sites?
> > 
> > Use a VPN (either via IPsec, or just an ssh tunnel).
> 
> A VPN is not going to protect you from a worm such as the MS-SQL users 
> experienced over the weekend.

It does to the extent that there is not an open firewall port for the
worm to exploit.

I absolutely agree that once inside an organisation it could wreak
complete havoc !

Simon.

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