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Re: Santa Fe city government computers knocked out by worm

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr. Jeffrey Race)
Sun Nov 16 14:07:36 2003

From: "Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net>
To: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 14:07:03 -0500
Reply-To: "Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 06:22:08 -0500 (EST), Sean Donelan wrote:

>
>http://kobtv.com/index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&id=6232&cat=HOME
>
>No explaination why Sante Fe officials had not patched the city's
>computers in the three months since Microsoft announced the vulnerability
>and released the software updates.  Nor why Sante Fe didn't have up to
>date anti-virus programs running on its computers.


Nor why they were using such rubbish software for a mission-
critical system.


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