[95541] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie)
Fri Mar 30 22:27:52 2007
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:25:59 GMT
To: ge@linuxbox.org
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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- -- Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org> wrote:
>There is a current on-going Internet emergency: a critical 0day
>vulnerability currently exploited in the wild threatens numerous deskto=
p
>systems which are being compromised and turned into bots, and the domai=
n
>names hosting it are a significant part of the reason why this attack h=
as
>not yet been mitigated.
>
>This incident is currenly being handled by several operational groups.
>
=2E..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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Engineering Architecture for the Internet
fergdawg(at)netzero.net
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