well.

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 08:10:42PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
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>
>On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 20:21:04 -0400
>dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:
>
>> http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=12808118
>> 
>> Microsoft's Web site was made inaccessible for an hour and 40 minutes 
>> Friday afternoon when a denial-of-service attack overwhelmed the site 
>> with traffic, making it impossible for legitimate page requests to get
>> through.
>> 
>
>> That distinction is important because the software company issued a 
>> bulletin July 14 warning customers of a critical vulnerability in its 
>> Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003
>> operating systems. Following that notice, the Department of Homeland
>> Security issued its own advisory warning consumers and businesses to
>> patch their computer systems.
>> 
>
>I just love it. The DoHS is issuing advisory warnings to consumers and
>businesses, but they just signed a big contract to buy M$ shit for all
>their offices!!!

The thing that amazes me is that this is nothing new.  I just reread an
article I wrote almost 4 years ago after the Melissa worm came out, and
while some of the links no longer work (Microsoft deleted the pages that
told how they use Unix to insure that the CDs they send out don't contain
worms :-), the article doesn't seem terribly dated.

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