Here's a great article by the SANS director, Alan Paller. "The recent distributed denial-of-service attacks on sites such as eBay and Yahoo were directly enabled by security mistakes almost certainly made by unskilled systems administrators at the University of California . . .
Here's a great article by the SANS director, Alan Paller. "The recent distributed denial-of-service attacks on sites such as eBay and Yahoo were directly enabled by security mistakes almost certainly made by unskilled systems administrators at the University of California at Santa Barbara and other universities and institutions. Similarly, unskilled information security officers are taking responsibility for managing the security of major systems. Because they don't know how to secure them, they create policies that no systems administrator can implement and then blame the administrators when security is breached."

The link for this article located at ComputerWorld is no longer available.