Old Threats Made New

Folks,
I just returned from a demo of the UnityOne intrusion prevention system from TippingPoint. While at one of their customers' sites (for the demo), the Security Officer showed us the GUI console for SMS component. The part that most interested me wasn't the console nor what it does, but the data we were seeing in real-time.
During the few hours for which we saw data, there were 61 attempts from SQL-Slammer. Also, there were 30-35 attempts from an early version of Nimda. This was amazing to me! I have no conscious reasoning for this, but I always assumed that once the major impact of a virus was over; once the patch was available, the hits from that virus dropped off to nil.

I know -- not earthshaking info. However, IF you were under the same impression -- and therefore not patching systems for old vulnerabilities, be aware that they are still out there and punks are still trying to get you using those "oldies ".

Be safe out there!

 

Hi Charlie and Christer,

I get scanned every day from some dimwit infected with something other on my local ISP portal.

Threats over? - never.

Regards - Charles