Alan Paller Quotes

If an early infectee had an e-mail list with reporters at all the major news services, that would start the cascade. News organizations do not have radical e-mail attachment limits (like a rule banning all picture attachments) because they get legitimate pictures.

- Alan Paller

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Right now, there are 120,000 [Internet Protocol] addresses out searching for systems to infect. - Alan Paller

It would have been terrible (without the widespread patching). That got a lot of systems fixed. - Alan Paller

In the past 12 to 15 months, attackers have made a massive shift to attack applications. Automated patching started making it harder to find new vulnerable systems, so they went after applications that users are just not patching. - Alan Paller