Anyone else find it interesting that the release for this outside of NAI press release was at CNN/fn and not CNN's tech section? The stock shot up 6 and 3/8 on the news. Pretty nice Christmas bonus to say the least. Couple other more timely and detailed notes on the event: http://www.ilhawaii.net/webnews/wed/aq/Nd55_38.html http://www.ilhawaii.net/webnews/wed/dm/Nd55_51.html Also a local TV station (Austin) on the 5pm news last night had some official working on this fiasco quoted as saying that this was the first large case of "cyberterrorism" that he had encountered. I hope the national media doesn't start goose stepping to that account things; otherwise, expect this and related events to be cited by CIAO and other gubment offices in their initiatives next year to round up network incident response teams nationally and globally. http://www.ciao.gov/ http://www.pccip.gov/ moya -- a Navigo farmer Have an <Interesting> New Millenium- <http://www.netmeg.net/jargo/terms/i/interesting.html> <Days: 374 Hours: 11 Minutes: 42 Seconds: 6>
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From owner-cypherpunks@ssz.com Tue Dec 22 07:32:13 1998 From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com> Subject: MCI hit with encryption virus [CNN] To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 07:31:11 -0600 (CST)
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From Correspondent Bruce Francis December 21, 1998: 7:56 p.m. ET
July 30, 1998 Network Associates MCI WorldCom More Quotes.... Network Associates Anti-virus Research Center NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Employees at MCI WorldCom were confronted with a science fiction scenario made cold fact on Monday when a computer virus struck the company's sprawling network, encrypting and destroying files. [INLINE] To make things worse, virus consultants Network Associates (NETA) say that the virus -- called "Remote Explorer" -- is unlike any other and may be the smartest, most dangerous computer bug to date.
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