January 30, 2004

Security: Threats Will Get Worse

By FLORENCE OLSEN

Jeffrey I. Schiller often meets with Massachusetts Institute of Technology students and computer-system administrators in a classroom to demonstrate how vulnerable campus networks and Microsoft Windows machines have become. He pulls a new Windows XP machine out of its box and connects it to the network. Within 10 minutes, the machine becomes infected with a worm. Almost immediately, the worm begins blocking traffic in and

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