From: Ian Moya <moya@navigo.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 03:06:07 +0800
To: cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com
Subject: Re: MCI hit with encryption virus [CNN] (fwd)
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Anyone else find it interesting that the release for this outside of NAI press release was at CNN/fn and not CNN's tech section?  The stock shot up 6 and 3/8 on the 
news.  Pretty nice Christmas bonus to say the least.

Couple other more timely and detailed notes on the event:

http://www.ilhawaii.net/webnews/wed/aq/Nd55_38.html
http://www.ilhawaii.net/webnews/wed/dm/Nd55_51.html

Also a local TV station (Austin) on the 5pm news last night had some official
working on this fiasco quoted as saying that this was the first large case of
"cyberterrorism" that he had encountered.  I hope the national media doesn't 
start goose stepping to that account things; otherwise, expect this and related 
events to be cited by CIAO and other gubment offices in their initiatives next year 
to round up network incident response teams nationally and globally.

http://www.ciao.gov/
http://www.pccip.gov/

moya

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> Forwarded message:
> >From owner-cypherpunks@ssz.com Tue Dec 22 07:32:13 1998
> From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
> Subject: MCI hit with encryption virus [CNN]
> To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 07:31:11 -0600 (CST)
> 
> > X-within-URL: http://cnnfn.com/digitaljam/9812/21/virus_pkg/
> 
> >    From Correspondent Bruce Francis
> >    December 21, 1998: 7:56 p.m. ET
> 
> >    July 30, 1998 Network Associates MCI WorldCom More Quotes.... Network
> >    Associates Anti-virus Research Center   NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Employees
> >    at MCI WorldCom were confronted with a science fiction scenario made
> >    cold fact on Monday when a computer virus struck the company's
> >    sprawling network, encrypting and destroying files.
> >    [INLINE] To make things worse, virus consultants Network Associates
> >    (NETA) say that the virus -- called "Remote Explorer" -- is unlike
> >    any other and may be the smartest, most dangerous computer bug to
> >    date.
> 
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