August has seen a rash of worm and viral Internet attacks. While Windows was the targeted operating system, the impact was felt in various ways throughout the entire network, from the largest conglomerate corporation to the smallest household computer.
Are attacks of this nature inevitable in this era of interconnected networks? Microsoft offers patches but they too often don’t get applied ? do you as a developer believe that patching operating systems for security reasons should be mandatory because insecure nodes on the network are damaging to us all? Or does that solution create more problems then it solves?
Let’s hear what you, the people who write the software that must deal with security vulnerabilities, think about worms, viruses, and Internet security and what can be done to make our interconnected lives better.