Re: [iwar] I no longer feel left out...

From: Fred Cohen (fc@all.net)
Date: 2001-08-02 03:42:33


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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 03:42:33 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: [iwar] I no longer feel left out...
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Per the message sent by Gary Warner:

> Elias Levy was on Tech TV last hour.  He mentioned that they had sent
> emails to more than 300,000 sysadmins who had infected hosts the first
> go-around.

> They plan to do the same thing this time around.

Statistics are being pushed out rather often on securityfocus
(incidents@securityfocus.com) - for those interested...  as of

Wed, 1 Aug 2001 15:14:06 -0600 (MDT):

> So far to date we have *confirmed* reports of 37,000 infected servers.
> These are attacks from unique IP's which have been verified as actually
> performing the attacks as identified by IDS's, web logs and firewall logs
> (which contain enough data to be certain).
> 
> We are in the process of notifying against 170,000 IP's, the differance
> (of the total sum) being hosts which were logged as possible offenders via
> machanisms which are not 100% reliable.

That's from this go round - and remember, it's only in the reproductive
phase now.  Denial of services start in (18?) days give or take.

FC
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