CODE RED ATTACK Nearly 12,000 windows based servers have been struck by the new CODE RED virus. The worm virus attacks a known flaw in the Microsoft Internet Information Server software and defaces the Web sites hosted by the server. Microsoft has a patch available on its website. The virus is suspected to have originated from China. RED AND BLUE China Southern Airlines has begun phase two of IBM's IT management system for aircraft maintenance. The software system supplied by big blue is part of a $2.7 million effort to improve the Chinese airlines aircraft maintenance documents up to Air Transport Assn's ATA2100 electronic standard. 9 OUT 10 Lockheed Martin's Patriot PAC-3 missile missed a Hera target due to a failure in the software. The failure was located in a faulty hand-off of target data between two onboard processors inside the missile. The recent miss at White Sands NM ends a streak of nine previous direct hits by the PAC-3 Patriot. The next test is in October. DID I GET IT? The Defense Dept. test of an anti-missile interceptor Sunday was a direct hit. However, a key ground based radar system was unable to determine if the computer controlled kill-vehicle had actually hit the ballistic missile target at a speed of over 16,000 miles an hour. The ground based X-band radar software is suspected since it lost track of both the space based kill vehicle and its simulated missile warhead target at the same time. **************************************************************** Pcyphered SIGNATURE: C08E648F619D4D0A991A883DE688373370E3D0FB35BAFC49542DAEDB1279A18F 918247EDE0F674FB43AF21CF1C17B65CB7B7C908E7C43D26FE4A9CB47CCC298B 6DD209C16C5283DD **************************************************************** OFFICIAL SOFTWAR COMMUNICATION VERIFIED BY DIGITAL SIGNATURE SOFTWAR EMAIL NEWSLETTER COPYRIGHT (C) 2001 SOFTWAR INC. 07/19/01 TO UNSUBSCRIBE REPLY WITH UNSUBSCRIBE AS SUBJECT
