RE: Terroristic attacks today

["Pitcher, Glenn" <glenn.pitcher () akamai com>]

Given what has happened, almost anything that could be done virus wise to
the Internet would be a relative drop in the bucket.  I seriously doubt
we'll see attacks related to the terrorist attacks.

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Glenn Pitcher
Lead Network Administrator
Akamai Technologies
858-909-3163 (v)
858-442-5548 (c)
glenn.pitcher () akamai com




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Puhek [mailto:rpuhek () etnsystems com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 12:45 PM
> To: incidents () securityfocus com
> Subject: Terroristic attacks today
>
>
> Has anyone seen, or does anyone anticipate any security threats on the
> Internet or Internet-based attacks on any given targets in connection
> with this mornings terroristic attacks on the World Trade 
> Center and the
> Pentagon?
>
> I hadn't considered the possibility, assuming that parties that would
> fly planes into buildings aren't likely to be interested in writing
> viruses. We did have one customer voluntarily disable their Internet
> connection for the next 24-hours out of concern for 
> "viruses". They said
> something about a warning from the FBI. The FBI's website is 
> apparantly
> unreachable (or overloaded) at the moment.
>
> --Rich
>
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