{"id":230,"date":"2005-08-18T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/quiet-news-day.htm"},"modified":"2007-07-16T19:07:02","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T18:07:02","slug":"quiet-news-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/quiet-news-day.htm","title":{"rendered":"A quiet news day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--112440437112442974-->Today must be a &#8220;quiet news day&#8221;. We see precious little IT news in the national press, and I know it&#8217;s the middle of August, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/\">Metro<\/a>, the UK&#8217;s free newspaper for commuters in and out of our major cities, is really scraping the barrel with its IT reporting this morning. On page 21, a sixth of a page is given over to a story about a worm attacking Windows 2000 (Hackers target Windows 2000) &#8211; an officially unsupported operating system. I wouldn&#8217;t mind that such a non-event is reported if only it were accurate. According to the Metro article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The basic effect of the worm is not damaging but irritating &#8211; it forces the computer to repeatedly shut down and reboot, clogging networks.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since when did a reboot clog up a network? (A few bytes of DHCP traffic; an increased number of logons). Allegedly, &#8220;ABC News producers were forced to use electronic typewriters to prepare TV scripts&#8221;. It seems to me that the most pertinent point of the article was the quote from a security expert from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/uk\/\">McAfee<\/a> who said that the time between vulnerability exposure and exploit is lessening &#8211; something we&#8217;ve known for some time now. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/incident\/zotob.mspx\">Microsoft&#8217;s advice on what to do about this exploit, known as Zotob<\/a> indicates that &#8220;only a small number of customers have been affected&#8230; [with] no indication of widespread impact to the Internet&#8221; (although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/virusinfo\/articles\/breakingnews.html\">Sophos lists a dozen types of malware<\/a> exploiting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/security\/bulletin\/ms05-039.mspx\">MS05-039 vulnerability<\/a> used by Zotob).<\/p>\n<p>The Metro reporter, Sarah Hills, needs to do some research &#8211; perhaps instead of alarming a generally computer-illiterate public she should point out that Windows 2000 is old and those organisations affected should tighten up their anti-virus protection! More to the point, the exploit also affects Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 &#8211; not just Windows 2000!<\/p>\n<p>In the same paper, immediately below the &#8220;Hackers target Windows 2000&#8221; piece, is another one about how &#8220;Bluetooth thieves log your laptop&#8221;, scanning parked cars for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bluetooth\">Bluetooth<\/a> devices locked in the boot. Isn&#8217;t Bluetooth off when my laptop is switched off?<\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s all about stories being newsworthy, but what I&#8217;d really like to see is the occasional IT piece in the national press which is both accurate and timely, without being alarmist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today must be a &#8220;quiet news day&#8221;. 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