RE: [Full-Disclosure] [Fwd: Edwards AFB shut down by W32Blaster] (fwd)

From: Byron Copeland (nodialtone_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/17/03

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    To: "'Ron DuFresne'" <dufresne@winternet.com>, <full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 16:57:14 -0400

     
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    That is a load of B.S. if I ever heard it.

    - --- "Microsoft doesn't really care though... after all most half-wit MCSE's out there would rather have Windows 2000's mouse have a nicer drop shadow to it then being able to figure out which programs are on which ports."

    - -Marc - eEye
     

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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: full-disclosure-admin@lists.netsys.com [mailto:full-disclosure-
    > admin@lists.netsys.com] On Behalf Of Ron DuFresne
    > Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 12:39 PM
    > To: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com
    > Subject: [Full-Disclosure] [Fwd: Edwards AFB shut down by W32Blaster]
    > (fwd)
    >
    >
    >
    > Computer systems at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., were shut down
    > this
    > week as a result of the "Blaster" computer worm.
    > The desert base is home to the Air Force Flight Test Center, which
    > conducts
    > work on the B-2 and B-1B bombers, the airborne laser, the Global Hawk
    > unmanned
    > aerial vehicle, the new F-22 Raptor jet fighter, the Joint Strike Fighter
    > and
    > other high-tech weapons.
    > "We stopped access to our base computer network Monday about 2 p.m.
    > because
    > of the Blaster worm," said Air Force Lt. Col. Kerry Humphrey, a base
    > spokeswoman.
    > "We don't know how much damage was done, but we're slowly but surely
    > getting our system back on line."
    >
    >
    >
    >
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