[55865] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Symantec detected Slammer worm "hours" before
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hostmaster)
Thu Feb 13 12:55:01 2003
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:50:30 +0200
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: hostmaster <hostmaster@nso.org>
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DeepSight is SecurityFocus. Their claim may have some truth in it. But, so
does the 19000+ partners. They mean customers....but not necessarily
customers/ subscribers to DeepSight. (they may have 'accidentally' included
all their SecurityFocus lists' subscribers in that number as well
:). Though I do appreciate the SF team, I haste to add that this
revelation smells seriously commercially tainted. All of the major networks
would see such anomaly pretty fast, and at virtually the same time. This
is however the right moment to underscore 'corporate fears', and bring
attention to their relatively new service/product.
cheers
Bert
director research
nso/ft. myers
