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| September 1st, 2003 Volume 4, Number 35n |
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Forwarded from: Brooks Isoldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Anyone subscribing to mailing lists like Bugtraq or the Secunia
> Security Advisories knows that there are hundreds of new
> vulnerabilities discovered every week in pretty much every
> application and operating system around.
I beg to d
Forwarded from: H. Morrow Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ummm... No security was compromised? Isn't the fact that 40% (an
astounding number) of federal prosecutor's PCs were running a
particular virus or worm just the definition of 'compromised'?
'It just slowed the network down." Hm... No biggie :
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,7081024%255E421,00.html
By Caitlyn Fitzsimmons
27 August 2003
EX-QANTAS employee Ferri Sutan Malik thought he had the perfect scam,
but now he faces prison.
For more than two years, he used his knowledge of the airline's
computer system
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0825/web-worm-08-29-03.asp
By Matthew French
Aug. 29, 2003
Navy officials want to know how a worm got into the Navy Marine Corps
Intranet.
Earlier this month, the so-called Welchia worm infected thousands of
systems nationwide, including a few prominent gov
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2306-2003Aug29.html
By Ben White and Charles Duhigg
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, August 30, 2003; Page A01
Government investigators yesterday arrested a Minnesota teenager on
charges of unleashing a version of the "Blaster" worm that snar
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