These are not your average hackers. They're highly skilled people who try to find holes in commercial software.
When the security manager found out, he went through the roof.
The more functionality you have, the more likelihood there is for a security vulnerability, and Windows NT just keeps building more and more functionality in there.
Traditional systems are meant more to protect their dollar invested in making sure they deny unauthorized users access because that saves them money.
When you buy their product, you have to register with it. They make you register with it in order to use the product .... They should be responsible for when there's a security-related problem for e-mailing everybody that registered that product and let them know.
To a hacker, you're just an IP address. You get hit because you let yourself be an easy mark.
For banks, their number one is protecting the impression of trust. If they lose that impression of trust, that bank goes out of business. It's that simple.
They're the ones finding the latest hack for the Web, instead of finding the latest hack on the Web, ... There's a big difference.
This one, from a technical standpoint, isn't dangerous in and of itself. What makes it dangerous is that it can spread very, very rapidly and fill up mail servers, causing mail servers around the world to crash.
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