Worm attacked voter database,Florida '06

HostAdmin writes: Florida's voting process continues to be in good hands:

The computer database infrastructure of Sarasota County, Fla., was attacked by a notorious Internet worm on the first day of early voting during the 2006... ...machine that was attacked and subsequently spread an infection that overtook the network infrastructure "was completely unpatched. Essentially it was missing five years' worth of security updates...

5 years? Anybody feel bad for them? Anybody surprised?

Single page print version of the article

Long, drawn out 5 page version of the article