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...monoculture--that is, the sort of homogeneous ecosystem that makes as little sense in the business world as it does in the biological. Using Word, Excel and Outlook exclusively on Windows machines in a company network "is like planting Kansas with the same grain of wheat," says Bill Cheswick, a senior researcher at Lucent. When a virus preys on the crop, nothing is left standing. The companies hit hardest by the Love Bug were closed Microsoft shops. Users who had planted their PCs with a slightly more colorful selection of seeds--even just substituting Eudora for Outlook--suffered...
...Bill Cheswick, a security expert at Bell Labs, argues that simple carelessness caused the glitch: "It's an old rookie mistake--something you get in freshman programming." The bug enables an evil-minded e-mailer to send an attachment whose file name can be an executable program thousands of lines long. Apparently, someone forgot to set a size limit on file names for attachments. Oops. While Microsoft and Netscape say they've yet to hear of any hackers exploiting the bug, "I would be surprised if there weren't some bad guys out there who already had this in their...
...world is a better place with SATAN out there," says Bill Cheswick, a computer scientist at AT&T's Bell Laboratories and co-author of Firewalls and Internet Security. The Internet has been growing so rapidly, says Cheswick, that it is filled with novice administrators running powerful computer networks who don't have any idea how vulnerable their systems are. "The bad guys already have these tools," says Cheswick. "It's a lot harder for the good guys to get them...
Even before Kevin Mitnick got his hands on these burglar's tools, says William Cheswick, a network-security specialist at AT&T Bell Labs, the average computer on the Internet was singularly vulnerable to attack. Security at most sites, says Cheswick, is so lax that passwords and other protective devices are almost a waste of time. "The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back," says Cheswick. "I don't need jackhammers and atom bombs to get in when I can walk in through the door...
...Esterquest of Oxford, Ohio, and Eliot House; Ann B. Fay of New York and Lowell House: Janette H. Harris of Potomac, Md., and Quincy House; Linda S. Klibanow of New Rochelle, N.Y., and Currier House; Julie A. Krewer of New York and Quincy House; Lynn A. Maguire of Cheswick, Penn., and North House; Phyllis Morrow of Aberdeen. Md., and Adams House; Louise Nemschoff of Kentfield. Calif., and Leverett House; Barbara A. Slavin of Bethesda, Md., and Adams House; Nadine Strossen of Columbus. Ohio, and Winthrop House; Elisabeth A. Werby of Brookline and Winthrop House and Luci E. White of Greensboro...