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Backdoor Trojan behind BigPond, Internet spam woes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Thu Oct 16 19:04:30 2003
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:01:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000048600,20279775,00.htm
Backdoor Trojan behind BigPond, Internet spam woes
By Andrew Colley, ZDNet Australia
15 October 2003
U.S.-based Internet security researchers have confirmed that a worm is
behind the sharp jump in spam activity battering Telstra's BigPond and
other major global ISPs since early last week.
UPDATE: BigPond service recovery may take 'several weeks'
By Iain Ferguson, ZDNet Australia
14 October 2003
Telstra has conceded it may be several weeks before BigPond e-mail service
levels return to normal as the telecommunications carrier wrestles with
delays caused by a steep ongoing surge in traffic.
