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Forwarded from: Jason Ware This is someone's eggdrop botnet, the first part of the dump is the user file. The -bfoN is the user flags set, and b means another bot. The port it listens to, 9872, is...

http://www.theneteconomy.com/article/0,3658,s%253D908%2526a%253D20127,00.asp December 14, 2001 By: Paul Coe Clark III Howard Schmidt is chief security officer at Microsoft. He recently testified...

Forwarded from: Richard Caasi http://crn.channelsupersearch.com/news/crn/30948.asp By John Roberts CRN Oct. 26, 2001 Six years ago when FishNet Security founder and CEO Gary Fish received his...

http://cryptome.org/dirty-lantern.htm [Anonymous also sent us a copy of this statement, and I would have been happy to have broken the story if it wasn't for another fine Micro$oft MTA making sure...

http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO66708,00.html By DAN VERTON December 17, 2001 WASHINGTON -- The pending appointment by President Bush of Microsoft Corp.'s chief security...

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/194719p-1890210c.html By MATTHEW FORDAHL, Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. (December 14, 2001 6:34 p.m. EST) - A recently uncovered security hole could...

http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,,NAV47_STO66417,00.html By DAN VERTON December 10, 2001 The FBI is taking steps to eliminate duplication of effort in its cybercrime investigation...

Forwarded from: C. L. Staten Cc: junkmail () barnowl com Mr. Rosenberger: While I agree that sometimes computer journalists have overblown the threat of cyberterrorism, I must also offer a simple...

Forwarded from: Dan Verton From: Dan Verton, senior writer, Computerworld, and former intelligence officer Rosenberger is right on many points. This is something I have been writing about for more...

Forwarded from: "R. A. Hettinga" ...and long live cypherpunks, of course, which, for years now, has existed on a distributed network of un-killable lists, like some feral form of Usenet, complete...