27 May
2016
27 May
'16
5:45 p.m.
During my consultant slut days, I was tasked with
building the ODBC backend
for a campus resource management system and the vendor specified SQL Server,
so that's what I did. After I hung up my hat on that job, Code Red blew
s/Code Red/Nimda/
They got hit by Code Red, too, but I wasn't around at the time. :)
through and knocked off all the Windows servers on the
administrative
network ... except that one. They did a forensic analysis and discovered
the reason "my" box didn't fall victim was I had written a very
restrictive
set of file-sharing permissions instead of accepting the Windows default.
The worm couldn't get in.
It never occurred to the other admins to do that.
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