By Will Sturgeon
Published: Thursday 23 February 2006
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Paul Sinclair
Location
USA
Occupation
IT
Comment
The big problem with the way this story was picked up and run with is that any reports of the so-called Mare.D worm have included warnings about Mambo, the popular cms. Strangely, most of the reports also recommended that people upgrade to the patched Mambo version that dealt with a vulnerability that was advised 12 months ago.
The problem with this is two-fold: the damage done to the credibility of Mambo, and the perhaps false sense of security any users may feel if they are still running the year-old version. Security patching is a movinig target, always trying to keep ahead of script kiddies and any users of the old Mambo 4.5.2.1 are exposed to risks that were patched with later versions.
So, the hype about Mare.D may die away, but will people realize that the association of Mambo to it in the reports is out-of-date and completely irrelevant?
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