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RE: Hysterical first technical alert from US-CERT
From: Darragh Bailey <felix () compsoc nuigalway ie>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 13:36:46 +0000
Quoting "Eggers, Bill A [LTD]" <William.A.Eggers () mail sprint com>:
Seeing as how SCO got shut down and Washington Mutual (I tried to get money from them today and couldn't, they indicated the MyDoom.B was the cause of their problems and several other banks), I'd say it was more than just a minor bother and a little less than hysterical. However, they do have some strong language in their alert. I'm just glad the government is putting some real resources behind the effort. Bill Eggers Tech Support Manager SprintDSL
Just 1 minor quibble. http://www.sco.com website didn't actually get taken down with the DoS. SCO removed the A records so that there is no dns record to use to target the website. So nice to see the worm foiled so easily. btw http://sco.com still works and points to their website, and all of there sub systems seem to be still up, so they effectively rendered the DoS null and void. All the mail traffic still being generated is a pain though. -- Darragh "Nothing's foolproof to a sufficently talented fool"
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- RE: Hysterical first technical alert from US-CERT Eggers, Bill A [LTD] (Feb 04)
- Re: Hysterical first technical alert from US-CERT Andrew Fried (Feb 06)
- Re: Hysterical first technical alert from US-CERT Mary Landesman (Feb 06)
- RE: Hysterical first technical alert from US-CERT Darragh Bailey (Feb 06)
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- RE: Hysterical first technical alert from US-CERT Stephen Martin (Feb 11)