RE: [Full-Disclosure] Things that make you go "Hmmm"

From: Mark Remington (mremington_at_threatfocus.com)
Date: 03/02/05

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    To: "'Jason Coombs'" <jasonc@science.org>, "'Burke N. Hare'" <bounce@asmodeus.yi.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:07:04 -0800

    All,

    This box was not taken down by any hacker, or owned, it was taken down by my
    sys admins at PivX for maintenance. Forensics is a division of PivX and we
    manage that server. There's patching that needs to happen, so we took it
    down.

    Sorry for any chatter about this today. Obviously, there's some
    mis-communication here. Hopefully this clears it all up.

    Mark Remington
    VP Operations
    PivX Solutions

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: full-disclosure-bounces@lists.netsys.com
    > [mailto:full-disclosure-bounces@lists.netsys.com] On Behalf
    > Of Jason Coombs
    > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 5:06 PM
    > To: Burke N. Hare
    > Cc: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com
    > Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Things that make you go "Hmmm"
    >
    >
    > And whomever it was that just owned the forensics.PivX.com
    > linux box, that wasn't a very nice thing to do...
    >
    > You should apologize.
    >
    > Cheers,
    >
    > Jason Coombs
    > jasonc@science.org _______________________________________________
    > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
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    >

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