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Re: [Full-Disclosure] sco.com Press Release
- To: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com
- Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] sco.com Press Release
- From: "Lennart Damm" <lennart.damm@excite.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 11:57:14 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 06:35:35 -0500 Roy M. Silvernail wrote:>On Mon,
2004-02-02 at 03:52, Dean Ashton wrote:>> >>From
http://sco.com/thescogroup/>> >> â??Security experts are calling
Mydoom the largest virus attack ever to>> hit the Internet, costing
businesses and computer users around the world>> in excess of $1 billion
in lost productivity and damage,â?? said Darl>> McBride>> >>
now does that sound a little excessive to anyone else?>Not any more
excessive than "millions of lines of stolen code".--
The MyDoom author should be an asset to any security company fighting this kind
of attacks. Or maybe he already is. I would not hesitate employing him to do
the analysis and synthesis of the obvious 3G vulnerabilities built into UMTS,
etc. Approaching 1 billion cell phone users there will be a new risk landscape
- much more demanding than the current one. Any time,Lennart Damm+46 73
632-4001
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