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Re: [ISN] Internet Attacks Hit U.S. Attorneys' Offices

From: InfoSec News (isnc4i.org)
Date: Tue Sep 02 2003 - 08:13:18 CDT


Forwarded from: H. Morrow Long <morrow.longyale.edu>

Ummm... No security was compromised? Isn't the fact that 40% (an
astounding number) of federal prosecutor's PCs were running a
particular virus or worm just the definition of 'compromised'?

'It just slowed the network down." Hm... No biggie :-)

InfoSec News wrote:

> The bugs affected 40 percent of the federal prosecutors' desk and
> laptop computers around the country, said Justice spokesman Mark
> Corallo. "No security was compromised, and it had no effect on
> evidence," he said. "It just slowed the network down."

- H. Morrow Long, CISSP
   Director - Information Security
   Yale University, ITS

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