Re: Warning Issued Against Fast-Spreading Hacking Worm

2001-04-30 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
Paul Lussier wrote: > > But if you truly want to wage war and intend to win, then you don't > give the enemy a chance to prepare. I think that it should be pointed out here that the Chinese didn't warn or threaten anyone about this. Wired News did. The article that started all of theis is here h

Re: Warning Issued Against Fast-Spreading Hacking Worm

2001-04-30 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 08:55:52 EDT "Andrew G. Bacchi" said: >Sorry about that. I think you can blame Netscape for Linux equally as >much. I doesn't handle things as well as for the Windows port. Next >time I'll "cut and paste", instead of "send page". Or you could just use 'Se

Re: Warning Issued Against Fast-Spreading Hacking Worm

2001-04-30 Thread David Roberts
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Derek Martin said: > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:55:52AM -0400, Andrew G. Bacchi wrote: > > Sorry about that. I think you can blame Netscape for Linux equally as > > much. I doesn't handle things as well as for the Windows port. Next > > time I'll "cut and paste", instead

Re: Warning Issued Against Fast-Spreading Hacking Worm

2001-04-30 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:55:52AM -0400, Andrew G. Bacchi wrote: > Sorry about that. I think you can blame Netscape for Linux equally as > much. I doesn't handle things as well as for the Windows port. Next > time I'll "cut and paste", instead of "send page". It would be much better if you si

Re: Warning Issued Against Fast-Spreading Hacking Worm

2001-04-30 Thread Andrew G. Bacchi
Sorry about that. I think you can blame Netscape for Linux equally as much. I doesn't handle things as well as for the Windows port. Next time I'll "cut and paste", instead of "send page". Michael O'Donnell wrote: > > Andrew Bacchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [the entire 30Kb verbatim HTML

Re: Warning Issued Against Fast-Spreading Hacking Worm

2001-04-28 Thread Derek Martin
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:47:59PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: > But if you truly want to wage war and intend to win, then you don't > give the enemy a chance to prepare. Unless you think they're too stupid for their preparations to have any effect, and/or you want to embarrass them badly. -- -

Re: Warning Issued Against Fast-Spreading Hacking Worm

2001-04-27 Thread Michael O'Donnell
Andrew Bacchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [the entire 30Kb verbatim HTML contents of a WWW page when he could have simply mentioned its URL... ] Please, sir - don't do that. Thank you very much. ** To unsubscribe from this list, send

RE: Warning Issued Against Fast-Spreading Hacking Worm

2001-04-27 Thread Tilly, Lawrence
Kenneth E. Lussier > Cc: Andrew G. Bacchi; Greater NH Linux Users' Group > Subject: Re: Warning Issued Against Fast-Spreading Hacking Worm > > > In a message dated: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:26:05 EDT > "Kenneth E. Lussier" said: > > >> I find it

Re: Warning Issued Against Fast-Spreading Hacking Worm

2001-04-27 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
Paul Lussier wrote: > > >There is a reason for this > > But if you truly want to wage war and intend to win, then you don't > give the enemy a chance to prepare. This was a well debated point during the Y2K issue. Everyone was worried that crackers were going to hit at midnight and there would b

Re: Warning Issued Against Fast-Spreading Hacking Worm

2001-04-27 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:26:05 EDT "Kenneth E. Lussier" said: >> I find it amusing that they have declared a "start date" for a war. > >There is a reason for this But if you truly want to wage war and intend to win, then you don't give the enemy a chance to prepare. I still fin

Re: Warning Issued Against Fast-Spreading Hacking Worm

2001-04-27 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:07:18 EDT "Andrew G. Bacchi" said: >Next Tuesday is May 1, the day this is all supposed to begin. I find it amusing that they have declared a "start date" for a war. >When will this all end? It uses too much of my time and resources. Here Here! -- S

Re: Warning Issued Against Fast-Spreading Hacking Worm

2001-04-27 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:07:18 EDT "Andrew G. Bacchi" said: >Next Tuesday is May 1, the day this is all supposed to begin. I find it amusing that they have declared a "start date" for a war. >When will this all end? It uses too much of my time and resources. Here Here! -- S

Re: Warning Issued Against Fast-Spreading Hacking Worm

2001-04-27 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
Bah I'm not too worried about this so-called "week of hactivism". It's been so well publicized that there is plenty of prepairation already done. Not to mention, the Chinese script-kiddies that are planning it weren't thinking too well. When it was anounced that they were going to attack the U

Re: Warning Issued Against Fast-Spreading Hacking Worm

2001-04-27 Thread Andrew G. Bacchi
"Kenneth E. Lussier" wrote: > > I've been reading a couple of different things about Carko, and I'm > still trying to figure out what it is. According to the Korean gov, it's > a worm that attacks BIND. According to incedents.org > (http://www.incidents.org/news/carko.php) it's a DDoS utility tha

Re: Warning Issued Against Fast-Spreading Hacking Worm

2001-04-27 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
I've been reading a couple of different things about Carko, and I'm still trying to figure out what it is. According to the Korean gov, it's a worm that attacks BIND. According to incedents.org (http://www.incidents.org/news/carko.php) it's a DDoS utility that exploits a bux in snmpXdmid. CERT is