Re: Microsoft Security Failure (should have stayed with AS/400)

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Subject: Microsoft Security Failure (should have stayed with AS/400)
> Software giant Microsoft has said hackers had broken into the....
I do think we could have had a more intelligent discussion, other than
secretly gloating about MS. We'd be kicking IBM if it happened there.

What this is about, is that a large corporation was infiltrated by a 
trojan horse (for months!). The seed most likely planted via email.
There is nothing here that could not potentially happen to an AS400 
based shop. It is amazing, with all the MS Outlook & Explorer 
exploits this summer, that they were able to hit them. How many 
of us have locked down the holes in Win software? Most of 
my clients were nervous for a few days, and have gone back to 
their bad habits. 
jim


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