RE: Denial of Service, Good for AS/400?

["Shaw, David" <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

ZDNet had an article yesterday which said that the current theory was that
"they" were using a weakness in Solaris to get machines to do the attacks.
There's a lot of big Sun machines with high-bandwidth connections at
universities, so that would make sense.  Anybody know if the investigators are
still pursuing that line of thought?

Dave Shaw
Spartan Mills
Spartanburg, SC

-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:clewis@iquest.net]

Sure do but from what I've seen in some of the security stuff I get and now even
on the NEWS, "they" hacked into BIG computers and Universities (that had HIGH
SPEED internet access) because "University computer security is lax at best and
they have high speed internet connections". So it probably wasn't a BUNCH of
hackers, could have even been ONE. "They" have been planting these DoS programs
since last December...

Chuck
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