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OK, this is rich

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Sat Jan 25 15:08:03 2003

Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 13:56:41 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



http://www.cnn.com/TECH/

Main story:

Electronic attack hits Net
A fast-moving computer worm slowed down Internet access Saturday for about
22,000 servers, according to the Internet security firm Symantec. Oliver
Friedrichs, a senior manager with Symantec, said the "SQL" worm was taking
advantage of a vulnerability detected six months ago in Microsoft sequel
servers, used mainly by companies to store information.


Then, first tombstone:


MORE NEWS

Gates pledges better software security



HAHAHAH

(props to troy corbin for this)



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