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BANGALORE: Last week, ‘Witty’ worm exploited a vulnerability in Internet Security Systems BlackICE firewall and infected about 50,000 computers. Hard drives of several computers had to be rebuilt as this worm wrote random data on them. Said an online report.

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ISS issued a fix for this flaw which was found in the ICQ instant messaging protocol parsing routines of the ISS Protocol Analysis Module.

However, Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) recently reported that "The patch model for internet security has failed spectacularly," and applying patches to plug security holes may not be the right approach to fight this problem. The havoc created by ‘Witty’ was slightly controlled as it could effect only the small installed base of the ISS products, but the same technique can be catastrophic if targeted at Windows networks.







The CAIDA report has urged security professionals to get rid of any ideas that end users could solve or even mitigate problems posed by malicious software and focus on writing better software and more secure infrastructure.

 



 



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