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To: Fred McCutcheon who wrote (12968)	11/4/2000 1:57:09 AM
From: mr.mark	of 110652

Another Hacker Hits Microsoft Dutch hacker claims he accessed servers and could alter files on Microsoft's download site. Joris Evers and George A. Chidi Jr., IDG News Service Friday, November 03, 2000 "The Dutch hacker, using the alias Dimitri, says Microsoft failed to install a patch for a known bug in its Internet Information Server and has not sufficiently secured its Web servers. Dimitri says he gained access to several of Microsoft's Web servers and was able to upload a short text file boasting of the hack to a page on Microsoft's public site. He could alter files on Microsoft's download site, he says. "I could add Trojan horses to software that Microsoft customers download," Dimitri says." pcworld.com

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