Re:Typical misinformation... (Score 1)

Exactly. However, two misfortunes occured here. 1) The administrators of the system(s) affected are incompetent/lazy/stupid/etc, and did not take any time to configure security on their SQL Server. They also neglected to patch IIS for a security bug that is years old. No excuses for any of this. These individuals should be fired for blatant incompetence. (My guess is that these individuals had (no?) supervisors with any technical experience). 2) The manner in which MSNBC phrased the fact that MS SQL Server was being used seemed to place blame on the product itself. (Furthermore, I am guessing that many people will stop reading the article right there, and go spewing MS SQL Server FUD). I think that MSNBC should have placed more emphasis on the sloppy sys admin work that was done than the product being used. Additionally, the industry needs better guidelines for consumers of our [consulting/development] services to judge us by. When we can be ranked on similar scales, then the consumers of our services will get more bang for the buck. It is unfortunate that unscrupulous/incompetent individuals pass themselves off as otherwise. . .