On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Bret Baptist wrote:
> I am on the securityfocus bugtraq mailing list.  If you are also on it
> you may have noticed all the SNMP advisories coming through, for all
> you that are not on the bugtraq list, shame on you.
>
> Anyway the main point of this whole thing is to advise people if they
> are running SNMP it might be a very good idea to disable it.  There
> are a slew of Denial of Service attacks and possible expoits that were
> just released.
>
> Here is an article to start you out:
> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/328
>
> I need to get to work on my servers, see ya.

If you've got SNMP open to the world, you've got problems anyways.  :)

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