Be careful what you wish for...
Jan. 2nd, 2006 12:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lordshipmayhemHow many of you have ever wished to see a geek panicking?
Me neither.
But I do have a linkie to a panicking geek. He works for the SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute, one of the biggest independent institutions out there dealing with system security. In other words, when he says it's time to panic, it is definitely time to panic.
The basic story: There's an unofficial patch available for the WMF vulnerability, and he's doing the unthinkable: Recommending that you install the UNOFFICIAL patch, rather than wait for an official Microsoft-approved patch. F-Secure is advising the same thing.
It all makes for a somewhat terrifying read, if only for the damage the can do to your friends' computers' operating systems. He very much sounds like he's fearing Tuesday, when everyone goes back to work and powers on their workstations for the first time in maybe a week and a half.
Me neither.
But I do have a linkie to a panicking geek. He works for the SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute, one of the biggest independent institutions out there dealing with system security. In other words, when he says it's time to panic, it is definitely time to panic.
The basic story: There's an unofficial patch available for the WMF vulnerability, and he's doing the unthinkable: Recommending that you install the UNOFFICIAL patch, rather than wait for an official Microsoft-approved patch. F-Secure is advising the same thing.
It all makes for a somewhat terrifying read, if only for the damage the can do to your friends' computers' operating systems. He very much sounds like he's fearing Tuesday, when everyone goes back to work and powers on their workstations for the first time in maybe a week and a half.
