Information Warfare: When Intrusion Detection Isn't Enough
Friday the 5th, October 2001 at 06:28 PM (EDT)
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September 11, 2001? that date will be engraved upon the memories of most Americans for many years to come. That is the date when Terrorists brought their battle to the U.S. soil. One week later, the Internet came under attack by the Nimda worm. Many claimed this was an act of Information Warfare. This was not the first ?attack? on the Internet, and it certainly won?t be the last, but was this an act of Info War? I don?t believe it was. Let?s compare the tragic events from the 11th with the Nimda worm to see if we can draw some conclusions about Information Warfare.
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Conective Linux Security Announcement!
Thursday the 4th, October 2001 at 11:33 AM (EDT)
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Groff is the GNU version of troff, a document processor that ships with most Unix systems. Among other functions, it formats system manual pages into human-readable form." A new release fixes an issue that caused groff to read untrusted commands from working directories, and modifies a command that was vulnerable to a format string attack.
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