Opinion

It looks like September may be repeating itself in August, nearly the same threat to prepare for the marshes. Hopefully, this time, suffering experience last month will help us avoid another, its disaster.

New threats change on the same, based in the United Kingdom Digital venture companies, security intelligence departments, in August of the most expensive month ever vandalism. Combines the RPC DCOM vulnerability in the use of MS Windows explosion and the spread of e-mail worms sobig.f merged into one estimated 32.8 billion US dollars in economic losses, according to the security intelligence departments. The firm attributed to the majority, 29.7 billion US dollars, sobig, which inundated Corporate e-mail systems and user inbox with spam, viruses bearing message.

Ms. Blaster worm and prodded most organizations to get up to date on programs MS03 - 026 patches on the windows to protect the RPC DCOM vulnerability that patch no longer provide adequate protection. Microsoft show last week that the flaw is much broader than its security team originally thought. A new security bulletins, programs, MS03 - 039, fixes a few additional channels for the worm author to automatically take control of remote systems. If you do not have jumped the patch, I can not urge you strongly enough to drop, whether you do so, and begin testing.

A notable thing to note is a new tool MS03 - 039 to scan the network to ensure that all computers are patched. In some cases, the scanning tool for Microsoft programs MS03 - 026 list computer repair and, more recently, the program MS03 - 039 patch still fragile. Must be replaced with new scanner, for the elderly, so you are not refused system is actually more secure than what you inspection.

We have 25 or 26 days between Availability program MS03 - 026 and the Blaster worm is an extraordinary long time to consider juiciness vulnerability. We are currently on the fifth day of Availability of this new patch, an equally juicy problem. This is a this competition, you must win.

Microsofts new patch can be found here: www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms03-039.asp.

September 10th is a good day for the majority of e-mail administrators and many of us with a high degree of public e-mail address. Sobig.f intolerable flood e-mail, last week narrowed as mass-mailing worm hit its automatic closing date to find new victims. But it is an ominous breakthrough. Sobig variant of the new year quickly followed by the final date of the suicide, a variant. You may get the news, the future sobig variant of the e-mail server when you peak, but it is continually update your anti-virus software, just in case you anyway vendors give you half a step this time. We can always hope.