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Companies adapt to a zero day world

Financial institutions with critical systems and cash on the line are
reorganizing to deal with the closing gap between the hole and the
patch.
By Deborah Radcliff, SecurityFocus Jul 13 2004 11:43AM

Zero day exploits are upon us. Case in point, the June 25th Russian
attacks that turned IIS servers into delivery platforms for
identity-thieving Trojan keystroke loggers. The attacks relied on two
vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer that security researchers
discovered for the first time weeks earlier on a malicious
adware-implanting website. At the time of the attack, no patch was
available. 

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/9100

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Joe Klemmer 
Unix System/Network Administrator & Ad Hoc Programmer