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Re: Internet Attacks Hit U.S. Attorneys' Offices
From: InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 08:13:18 -0500 (CDT)
Forwarded from: H. Morrow Long <morrow.long () yale edu> 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 :-) InfoSec News wrote:
The bugs affected 40 percent of the federal prosecutors' desk and laptop computers around the country, said Justice spokesman Mark Corallo. "No security was compromised, and it had no effect on evidence," he said. "It just slowed the network down."
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