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Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names
- From: Fergie
- Date: Fri Mar 30 22:29:54 2007
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- -- Gadi Evron <ge@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
fergdawg(at)netzero.net
ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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