Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:

> There is a current on-going Internet emergency: a critical 0day
> vulnerability currently exploited in the wild threatens numerous desktop
> systems which are being compromised and turned into bots, and the domain
> names hosting it are a significant part of the reason why this attack has
> not yet been mitigated.
>
> This incident is currenly being handled by several operational groups.


...and before people starting bashing Gadi for being off-topic, etc.,
I'll side with him on the fact that this particular issue appears to
be quite serious.

Please check the facts regarding this issue before firing up your
flame-throwers -- this weekend could prove to be a quite horrible
one.

- - ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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